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Your quick guide to the BRITAIN’S HIGHEST DENOMINATION COIN

he £2 coin was Britain’s first bi-metallic coin for over 300 years (the outer ring is made from copper, zinc and nickel, and the inner disc from copper and nickel) and is the country’s highest denomination in circulation. The initial design, by Bruce Rushin, was an abstract image symbolising the history of technological achievement, with the text ‘TWO POUNDS’ above and the year below. Coins with

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