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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II The Lernean Hydra
| Issuer | Gibraltar Government |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Composition | Bimetallic: copper-nickel centre in nickel brass ring |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, depicted with a pearl necklace and a diademed coiffure, set within a beaded inner border. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II D G REGINA GIBRALTAR, with the date 2020 appearing in the lower exergual area of the nickel brass outer ring. The portrait is rendered in fine relief against a coloured field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Part of Gibraltar's long-running Hercules series, this piece depicts the second of the twelve labors — the Lernean Hydra, whose severed heads famously regenerated until Hercules' nephew Iolaus cauterized each stump with a torch. Gibraltar has issued commemorative bimetallic £2 coins in this mythological series across multiple years, producing them for general circulation alongside collector sets. The KM#1776 reference places it firmly within the modern Gibraltar decimal coinage program, administered under the Gibraltar Government's own issuing authority, distinct from the Royal Mint despite sharing the monarch.