2 Pounds - Charles III National Gallery Gold Proof (2024)
Circulating version: 2024 2 Pounds - Charles III National Gallery
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Year | 2024 |
| Denomination | 2 Pounds |
| Face value | £2 |
| Mint | Royal Mint · Llantrisant |
| Circulation | Non-circulating |
| Composition | Gold (.9167) (917/1000 fine) |
| Weight | 15.980g · 0.4710 t oz |
| Diameter | 28.4mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Grade scale | UK (EF/UNC) |
Uncrowned portrait of King Charles III left, legend around.
Front facade of the National Gallery.
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About the 2024 2 Pounds - Charles III National Gallery – Gold Proof
The 2024 2 Pounds - Charles III National Gallery – Gold Proof is a collector 2 pounds coin, struck in 91.67% gold. It weighs 15.98g and measures 28.4mm across. Reverse design: Front facade of the National Gallery.
Common questions
How much is the 2024 2 Pounds - Charles III National Gallery – Gold Proof worth?
No verified sale of the 2024 2 Pounds - Charles III National Gallery – Gold Proof has been logged on MyCoinage yet. Its gold content is worth about £1,416 at today's spot price, which puts a floor under its value.
How is the 2024 2 Pounds - Charles III National Gallery – Gold Proof different from the circulating coin?
This is a collector version of the 2024 2 Pounds - Charles III National Gallery, not the coin found in change. At 15.98g of 91.67% gold it is heavier than the 12g nickel circulating coin, so weighing it is the quickest check.
How do I identify the 2024 2 Pounds - Charles III National Gallery – Gold Proof?
Check the weight 15.98g and diameter 28.4mm and the metal (91.67% gold) against the specification table on this page. The reverse design is described above.
History and design
This is a collector version of the 2 Pounds - Charles III National Gallery. The history below is that coin's; the mintage, varieties and collecting notes on its page do not apply to this strike.
The National Gallery £2 marks the 200th anniversary of the gallery, which opened in 1824 after the House of Commons agreed to buy the banker John Julius Angerstein's collection of 38 paintings. The pictures were first shown at his house in Pall Mall, and the building in Trafalgar Square opened in 1838.
The Royal Mint revealed the design on 28 December 2023 as one of five commemoratives for its 2024 annual sets, which went on sale on 2 January 2024. On 18 April 2024 it released the coin individually, timed to the gallery's bicentenary celebrations.
This is a collector coin. It is absent from the Royal Mint's circulating mintage data, which lists no commemorative £2 struck for circulation after 2016, and the Royal Mint has published no figure for the number sold.
The reverse is by Edwina Ellis, a designer, engraver and printmaker. It shows the front of the gallery, with its dome and Corinthian columns, under the inscription 200 YEARS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY. Ellis told the Royal Mint that she worked digitally, drawing the gridded stonework and the scales of the dome line by line, and that she separated the dome from the pediment and rejoined them where they sat well in the circle.
The edge is milled and reads MAIORVM GLORIA POSTERIS LVMEN EST, "the glory of our ancestors is a light to our descendants". The Royal Mint says the phrase is inscribed on the ceiling above the main staircase in the gallery's Wilkins Building. The obverse has the portrait of the King by Martin Jennings with the inscription CHARLES III D G REX F D 2 POUNDS and the date 2024, so the denomination is on the portrait side.
Sources
- Proclamation determining the specifications and designs for a new series of two pound coins in gold, standard silver, silver piedfort and cupro-nickel and nickel-brass, notice 4479550, 17 November 2023, The Gazette (read 9 Oct 2026)
- Annual Coin Sales, The Royal Mint (read 9 Oct 2026)
- The Royal Mint reveals 2024 coins, celebrating key events and anniversaries of the upcoming year, The Royal Mint (read 9 Oct 2026)
- The Royal Mint Commemorates 200 Years of the National Gallery, The Royal Mint (read 9 Oct 2026)
- UK coin mintage figures (data file), The Royal Mint (read 9 Oct 2026)
- National Gallery 2024 UK £2 Brilliant Uncirculated Coin, The Royal Mint (read 9 Oct 2026)
- £2 Coin Designs and Specifications, The Royal Mint (read 9 Oct 2026)
- Striking the National Gallery £2 Coin: Edwina Ellis, The Royal Mint (read 9 Oct 2026)
- UK £2 Mintage Figures (last updated 27 August 2026), The Royal Mint (read 9 Oct 2026)
- The 2024 United Kingdom Brilliant Uncirculated Annual Coin Set, The Royal Mint (read 9 Oct 2026)
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