The listing, Collectible Foreign Coin - 2005 British £2 - Rare Guy Fawkes Commemoration has ended.
Circulated coin. This 2-pound coin was the first bi-metallic coin to be produced for circulation in Britain since 1692, and is the highest denomination coin in common circulation in the UK. The coin consists of an outer yellow metal nickel-brass ring made from 76% copper, 20% zinc, and 4% nickel, and an inner steel-coloured cupro-nickel disc made from 75% copper, 25% nickel.
The inscription ELIZABETH II D.G.REG. F.D., means "Elizabeth II, by the grace of God, Queen and Defender of the Faith."
2007: Bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire.
Reverse: 1807, with the 0 as part of a broken chain, 2007 below, AN ACT FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE above and around.
EDGE INSCRIPTION: REMEMBER, REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER!!
This is the actual coin you will receive.
Background on Guy Fawkes: The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.
The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England's Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state. Guy Fawkes, who had 10 years of military experience fighting in the Spanish Netherlands in suppression of the Dutch Revolt, was given charge of the explosives. The plot was revealed to the authorities in an anonymous letter sent to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, on 26 October 1605. During a search of the House of Lords at about midnight on 4 November 1605, Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder—enough to reduce the House of Lords to rubble—and arrested.