This collection contains an example of four of the United Kingdom Silver Proof Piedfort coins issued in 2005: the £2 commemorating the foiling of the Gunpowder plot, the £1 featuring Thomas Telford's Menai Straits Suspension Bridge, the 50p marking the 250th anniversary of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language and the £2 celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. All the coins in this collection share the obverse of Ian Rank-Broadley's majestic portrait of Her Majesty the Queen.