The Royal Mint is honouring Gandhi for the first time on a legal tender £2 UK coin! A political leader and a powerful advocate of peace, Mahatma Gandhi inspired the non-violent resistance to British rule that led to India becoming an independent state. Gandhi was one of the rare spiritual icons of the twentieth century whose belief in truth and non-violence inspired generations. Struck from pure silver and presented in pristine Proof quality, the symbolic design on the coin’s reverse features a lotus flower framed by Gandhi’s own words, ‘My life is my message’.