2 X £2 coins for a £1 ?

[Stig(The)]

Picked these 2 commemorative coins up at a bootsale for a pound ! Still in presentation pack & in Mint condition.
They mark the 300th anniversary of the British "Bill of rights" & the Scottish "Claim of Rights" 1689-1989.

Here`s the info for those interested.

The Bill of Rights is an act of the Parliament of England, whose title is An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown. It is often called the English Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights was passed by Parliament in December 1689 and was a re-statement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right, presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1688, inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England.

The bill was enacted partly as a response to the events of the Glorious Revolution. The revolution had occurred due to controversy in England when after the death of Charles II in 1685, when his Catholic brother King James II & VII had been crowned. From that point, there were various factions pressing for the Dutch Protestant Prince William of Orange to replace King James II. In November 1688, William landed in England with an invading force, and succeeded in being crowned king. James in the Williamite War.

It enumerates certain rights to which subjects and permanent residents of a constitutional monarchy were thought to be entitled in the late 17th century, asserting subjects' right to petition the monarch, as well as to bear arms in defence. It also sets out—or, in the view of its drafters, restates—certain constitutional requirements of the Crown to seek the consent of the people, as represented in parliament.

Along with the 1701 Act of Settlement the Bill of Rights remains, today, one of the main constitutional laws governing the succession to not only the throne of the United Kingdom, but, following British colonialism, the resultant doctrine of reception, and independence, also to those of the other Commonwealth realms, whether by willing deference to the act as a British statute or as a patriated part of the particular realm's constitution.Since the implementation of the Statute of Westminster in each of the Commonwealth realms (on successive dates from 1931 onwards) the Bill of Rights cannot be altered in any realm except by that realm's own parliament, and then, by convention, and as it touches on the succession to the shared throne, only with the consent of all the other realms.

In the United Kingdom, the Bill of Rights is further accompanied by the Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus Act 1679 and Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 as some of the basic documents of the uncodified British constitution. A separate but similar document, the Claim of Right Act, applies in Scotland. Further, a bill of rights has been listed, in Republic of Ireland's Statute Law Revision (Pre-Union), as an English act of parliament to be retained as part of the country's law.The English Bill of Rights 1689 inspired in large part the United States Bill of Rights.

2 X £2 coins for a £1.......  

[DIGGA]

NICE FIND STIG   HOW DEEP WERE THEY     &*$ A A A A

[hedgehog]

Bargain Stig , well done, makes you wonder how some people work things out ? Definitely not a celt selling it!

[detectordave]

Stig i will give you £1-50 for them then we both make a profit 

[Stig(The)]

&*$ a a a  £1.50  that`s a deal ! 

[zorro]

i once bought a £2 in presentation cover commemerating rugby world cup in Wales for £1.80 including postage. according to spink 2004 the coin in presentation folder is worth £6.
get scott quinnell ( wales captain at time) to sign it who knows?
BARGAIN !

[davtec (dave)]

stig i sold one on flea bay for £4