Hello coin collectors and welcome to another
addition of the All Change Review this
week we're going to be looking at the
two pound coin to commemorate two
hundred years since Charles Darwin's
birth and a hundred and fifty years
since the publication of The Origin of
the Species. So let's begin for a change
with the approximate value of this coin
As this one is from circulation and a
little bit worn out expected to affect
price but looking at last five sold
online which will also from circulation
they went for an average of £2.59 but of
course this is only a rough guide a
little lower than I would expect though
for the mintage figures because the
mintage figures are quite low at
3,903,000
but not lot enough to make it into the
top 10 rarest two pound coins in
circulation at the moment. If you want to
get one of these coins my advice would
be to keep an eye on you change while
the figures are low they still do keep
popping up and I'm sure you pick one up
soon. So let's actually have a look at
this design itself, it was designed by
by Suzie Zamit who's a great
sculptor i will actually posted a link to a
Facebook page where you can see you
her other work as well and it shows Charles
Darwin in portrait facing a chimpanzee
locked in an infinite staring contest the
at the bottom you can see it says two pounds and at the top his date of birth, Darwin and the year
mintage which was two thousand and nine
and i'm going to more it closer to give a
better picture for you
if I turn it on to the edge
you can see it got a milled edge
and they actually says 'on the Origin of
Species' and the year was published 1859
just going on and
you can see here we've got the fourth
portrait of Queen Elizabeth II as well.
So on the milled edge it said
on the origin of the species that being the
short title of the book the full title
when it was printed was on the origin of
the species by means of natural
selection or the preservation of
favoured races in the struggle for life
so I can see why people have shorted it.
this is actually one of my personal
favorites in circulation that moment I
really like the design. so as we come to the
end of another edition of the All Change
Review let me know what you think of
this design yourself, do you have in your
collection? and are there any of the coin?
which he'd like me to review?
Let me know in the comments
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