United Kingdom Great Britain 2 Shillings coin pendant English tudor rose England Scottish thistle Scotland Irish shamrock Northern Ireland Welsh leek Wales Wars of the Roses London Edinburgh Belfast Cardiff Manchester Sheffield Liverpool n001772

note: extra-large coin United Kingdom 2 Shillings = 1 Florin {1954-1970} 67S FEATURINGfront: Tudor rose in the center surrounded by thistles, shamrocks and leeksThe Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the Tudor dynasty.The House of Tudor was a royal house of Welsh and English origin, descended in the male line from the Tudors of Penmynydd. Tudor monarchs ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms, including their ancestral Wales and the Lordship of Ireland (later the Kingdom of Ireland) from 1485 until 1603, with five monarchs in that period. The Tudors succeeded the House of Plantagenet as rulers of the Kingdom of England, and were succeeded by the House of Stuart. The first monarch, Henry VII, descended through his mother from a legitimised branch of the English royal House of Lancaster. The Tudor family rose to power in the wake of the Wars of the Roses, which left the House of Lancas