Hi, I got this £2 in my change from a supermarket today. I'm familiar with £2 designs but have never seen this one. The back of the coin states 2003 and has a picture of queen elizabeth Ii as usual.
I've googled and done numerous searches but haven't seen any other image of it. Does anyone know if it is real?
I'm a little worried about the size of the gap between the ore and rim on the obverse, but that might be just the lighting. Otherwise it seems fine.
Counterfeiters want their coins to look "normal" and "ordinary", because people looking closely at their coins is the last thing counterfeiters want to see happening. Finding a Saint Helena coin in change is not "normal" - people are going to look closely at it; exactly the kind of scrutiny a counterfeiter would try to avoid.
And counterfeiters aren't likely to target Saint Helena itself; the market's just too small and remote.
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