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<div class='featuredimage'><img src='https://coinsnotebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2015-Silver-Two-Pound-Proof-The-Royal-Navy-Box.jpg' alt='2015 Silver Two Pound Proof The Royal Navy Box' /></div><br>The 2015 Silver Two Pound Proof The Royal Navy is a silver proof version of the 2015 £2 currently in circulation, and I want to use this to illustrate how the Royal Mint is augmenting its coins by issuing product variants to reach as large as possible coin collector base.<br />
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David Rowlands designed the reverse of this coin to acknowledge the contribution of the Royal Navy in the First World War. The image shows an Iron Duke-class battleship in profile with a seaplane on the starboard side and sea birds on the port side. The inscription says "THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914 - 1918" and dated "2015" below THE SURE SHIELD OF BRITAIN.<br />
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<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7721" src="https://coinsnotebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2015-Silver-Two-Pound-Proof-The-Royal-Navy-Reverse.jpg" alt="2015 Silver Two Pound Proof The Royal Navy Reverse" width="897" height="879" /><br><br />
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The obverse is the Jody Clarke portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. A very small number (about 100) were released with the Ian Rank-Broadley portrait. They were given to visitors to HMS Belfast, which is located near Tower Bridge in London, prior to the main release and are now some of the UK&apos;s rarest coins.<br />
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In simpler days coins were just either Unc or Proof, but now besides the <em>silver proof</em> coin described above and the <em>standard circulation</em> <a href="https://coinsnotebook.com/2015-two-pound-coin-the-royal-navy/">2015 two-pound</a>, the Royal mint have released a <a href="https://coinsnotebook.com/what-are-piedfort-coins/">piedfort </a>(double thickness) silver proof version and a <a href="https://coinsnotebook.com/2015-gold-2-pound-coin/">gold version</a>.<br />
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The coins are very similar in their depiction of the battleship reverse. There&apos;s obviously colour variations due to the different metal used.<br />
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In the future there will probably even more variations, as the Royal Mint has issued its first <a href="https://mjhughescoins.com/royal-proclamation-allows-2017-piedfort-gold-sovereign/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">piedfort gold sovereign</a> in 2017 and several other coin denominations have already been issued in platinum. Combine these with matt proofs and coloured enamelled versions, plus a myriad of packaging and mintmarks to attain &apos;exclusive editions&apos; and the range can become huge.<br />
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<img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7723" src="https://coinsnotebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2015-Silver-Two-Pound-Proof-The-Royal-Navy-Box-1-300x271.jpg" alt="2015 Silver Two Pound Proof The Royal Navy Box 1" width="300" height="271" /><br><br />
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<h3>What is the price variation?</h3>
You may be lucky enough to find a 2005 Navy two-pound circulating £2 coin in your loose change, but eBay has plenty for £3-4. The Royal Mint sold the Unc version in shrink-wrap packaging for £10. Silver coins are around £50-80, piedfort silver coins about £150 and the gold version being £1300-1600.<br />
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Image attribute: <a href="https://mjhughescoins.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">M J Hughes Coins</a><br />
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