A Penny for the Guy

One of the plotters, Guy Fawkes by name, was caught with dozens of kegs of gunpowder in the basement of the Houses of Parliament. He waswaiting for a signal that the King had arrived to open Parliament, to light the fuses. He and his fellow plotters were rounded up and dispatched fromthis world with very nasty means of execution. But the event is celebrated to this day with bonfires, fireworks and burning Guy in effigy, whilechildren sort of "Trick or Treat," asking for "a penny for the Guy." The mask used in the movie V for Vendetta is Guy Fawkes' visage.

Numismatic Remembrances of Guy Fawkes

In 2005, to commemorate the 400th Anniversary of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot, the British Royal Mint struck a commemorative Two Pound Coin. The center of the reverse has a circular arrangement of state, the mace, crosier and sword with the denomination "TWO POUNDS" and the dates "1605" and "2005" with the edge inscription "REMEMBER, REMEMBER THE 5TH OF NOVEMBER". The coin was designed by Peter Forster and was struck in a bimetallic cupro-nickel version for circulation and in silver, silver piedfort (pictured above) and gold.

[And] ... we have a 1935 Buffalo nickel that has been engraved to look like Guy Fawkes This design was created by Stephen D. Cox, who hasengraved his initials under the buffalo on the reverse. Only the date and the legend of LIBERTY remain from the original design on the obverse. Achain border surrounds the portrait of Fawkes.

To read the complete articles, see:
A Penny For The Guy (http://fourthgarrideb.com/2015/11/a-penny-for-the-guy/)
Numismatic Remembrances of Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot (http://fourthgarrideb.com/2015/11/numismatic-remembrances-of-guy-fawkes-and-the-gunpowder-plot/)