2 Pounds 2010 Florence Nightingale
By Coinsanduk | Thursday, 31 July 2025
Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 and was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.
During the Crimean War Nightingale astounded the world by taking a team of nurses to Constantinople to care for and comfort the ill and critically injured troops.
She was relentless in harrying politicians for desperately needed supplies and through her ceaseless labour brought order and cleanliness to the Barrack Hospital at Scutari, becoming known as The Lady with the Lamp as she tended the wounded at night.
Throughout her life she campaigned zealously to improve health standards and was awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1883. In her old age she remained a tireless campaigner and received many honours becoming the first woman to be awarded the Order of Merit.
She died peacefully in her sleep in London, on 13 August 1910, at the age of 90.
The commemorative £2 coin struck in 2010 marked the centenary of the death of Florence Nightingale and also the 150th anniversary of the publication of her Notes on Nursing.
The reverse design has been created by Gordon Summers and, through the depiction of a pulse being taken, the design seeks to commemorate the great nursing profession in general, while the inscription draws attention to the achievements of Florence Nightingale in particular with the background symbolising the rays of light from her lamp.
Two Pounds 2010 Price Guide and Values
Specifications - Circulated
- Alloy: Inner - Cupro-nickel, Outer - Nickel-brass
- Weight: 12 g
- Diameter: 28.40 mm
- Designer (Reverse): Gordon Summers
- Designer (Obverse): Ian Rank-Broadley
- Edge Inscription: 150 Years of Nursing
Gold, silver and silver piedfort coins were also made.
