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Help! Is This Britannia £2 Coin A Fake? If Not, What Is It?

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Help!-Is-This-Britannia-£2-Coin-A-Fake?-If-Not,-What-Is-It?

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Can you help with this Britannia £2 coin that I found today. As you can see from the image, the front of the coin does not have the words 'two pounds' on it but does have the initials AD. The reverse of the coin, beneath the queens head, has the initials IRS (or possibly IRB) whilst the other Britannia coins have the initials JC.
There is no writing around the coin.

Can anyone help as to whether this is a fake coin or exactly what it is!?!

Thanks in anticipation.
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It's a Chinese fake.
They've missed out the denomination and the date in an attempt to pass them off as tokens, we assume.

As you've noted, there is no inscription on the edge of the coin, when every UK £2 has words or a pattern.
The design is also frosted, which is indicative of either a proof coin, or a fake.
The portrait on this coin also isn't the correct one for the design.
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