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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MIGuy, post: 13419061, member: 116145&quot;]Thank you Secret Santa!&nbsp; Sorry I didn&#039;t post sooner but waited until XMas to open and busy with family this week.&nbsp; Very excited to get two beautiful 1 ounce silver 2 pound Elizabeth II pieces.&nbsp; A very generous gift!&nbsp; I love Britannia as depicted on these, just gorgeous. </p><p><br /></p><p>Britannia is typically associated with Queen Boudica or Boadicea; the Celtic Iceni ruler who led a revolt against the rule of the Roman empire. The symbolic figure of Britannia actually predates Boadicea however, to the time when the Romans first occupied land in the British Isles.</p><p><br /></p><p>The icon was imported into Great Britain with the Roman conquest, and is based on the Roman goddess Minerva; the sponsor of arts, trade, strategy, and wisdom. Minerva was herself the Roman appropriation of the goddess Athena, and both are based upon the ancient Phoenician goddess Barati; recognised in the Indian Vedas as Goddess of the Waters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, thanks Secret Santa &amp; Coin Talk (&amp; Joshua!!!!).&nbsp; What fun this is!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1529813[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1529814[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1529815[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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