2005 £2, Gunpowder Plot Silver Proof

In 2005, the Royal Mint issued a new £2 coin to commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot of 5 November 1605, an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I during the State Opening of Parliament. Owing to suspicion, the King ordered a thorough search of the House of Lords that evening and Guy Fawkes was found guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder and the plot was foiled. Fawkes, along with other plotters, was eventually tried and they met their grisly fate in January 1606. The reverse of the coin shows and arrangement of croziers, maces and swords surrounded by stars with the dates 1605 and 2005 and the coin carries the edge inscription REMEMBER REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER. The mintages were low and you don’t see these very often but we have a small quantity of these in silver proof. The coins comes in capsules.