Celebrating the life and works of Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell, the Royal Mint has issued this wonderful £2 coin. His perhaps most well known works Animal Farm and 1984 were published in 1945 and 1949 respectively. As a teen I loved both and read them many times over.
The inscription on the edge of the coin states "There was truth and there was untruth." In the age of "my truth" and "alternative facts" this seems so apt.
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