London Underground Train £2 (2013)
The London Underground Train £2 from 2013 shows the front of a Tube train coming out of a tunnel. It is one of the two £2 coins for the Underground's 150th anniversary, and its edge carries a pattern taken from the Tube map instead of words. It is one of the two London Underground £2 coins and one of the 85 £2 designs struck since 1986.
London Underground Train £2 value
- Circulated
- typical £4.50, range £3.50 to £5
- Uncirculated
- typical £24, range £22 to £30
Worked out from 10 published prices (4 price guides, 4 dealer prices and 2 sold-price reports), each condition from its own prices, checked in September 2026.
Rarity rank 17 of 44 ranked £2 designs, rarest first
Rarity: ScarceThe train £2 went into general circulation and a few more were struck than of the roundel coin, so it still turns up in change. Circulated coins sell for a small premium over face value, and more when the front of the train and the edge pattern are sharp. Most collector interest is in brilliant uncirculated coins from Royal Mint packs, including the two-coin Underground set and the annual set.
London Underground Train £2 mintage and rarity
With 1,690,000 struck for circulation, the London Underground Train £2 is the seventeenth rarest of the 44 ranked £2 designs and has the 59th lowest mintage of all 194 circulating UK designs. That puts it in the Scarce band, for mintages 1,000,000 to 2,499,999.
The next rarer £2 is the United Nations £2, with 1,668,575 struck, and the next more common is the Guinea £2, with 2,990,000 struck.
How to spot a London Underground Train £2
A Tube train seen face-on in the middle of the coin, framed by the outer ring as if by the mouth of a tunnel, sets this design apart from the roundel coin of the same year. The words LONDON UNDERGROUND arch over the train between two dates, and TWO POUNDS appears only on the heads side. Check the edge: instead of lettering, it carries a pattern of lines.
London Underground Train £2 design
For the London Underground's 150th anniversary in 2013, The Royal Mint gave one of its two £2 reverses to Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, the design pair behind the London 2012 Olympic Torch. The front of a 1967-stock Victoria line train fills the silver-coloured centre, and the brass outer ring becomes the tunnel it is emerging from, with the track running out towards the rim. The Royal Mint says the design uses texture and perspective to suggest movement and light. LONDON UNDERGROUND runs around the top of the ring between the opening year and 2013. The edge has no lettering at all; it carries a linear pattern inspired by Harry Beck's Tube map, first published in 1933. Ian Rank-Broadley's fourth portrait of Queen Elizabeth II is on the obverse, which also carries the words TWO POUNDS, left off the reverse.
In the London Underground set it was issued in 2013 together with the London Underground Roundel £2.
London Underground Train £2 specifications
- Denomination
- £2
- Year
- 2013
- Type
- Commemorative
- Issue
- Issued for circulation
- Series
- London Underground
- Occasion
- 150th anniversary of the London Underground
- Designer
- Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby
- Composition
- Cupro-nickel centre, nickel-brass outer ring
- Weight
- 12 g
- Diameter
- 28.4 mm
- Shape
- Round
- Edge
- Milled, with a linear pattern based on the Tube map instead of lettering
- Obverse
- Elizabeth II, fourth portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley
London Underground Train £2 questions
Is the London Underground train £2 rare?
Not rare, though fewer were struck for circulation than of most £2 designs. It was issued in 2013 and still turns up in change.
Why is there no writing on the edge of the Underground train £2?
Its edge was given a linear pattern based on Harry Beck's Tube map in place of lettering, so a patterned edge with no words is correct for this coin.
Who designed the London Underground train £2?
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, who also designed the London 2012 Olympic Torch.