New £2 coin modeled on Pole?

The Royal Mint is bringing back Britannia, a female personification of the island, on the £2 coin this year. According to the British newspaper Daily Mail, the heroines face is modeled on Polish immigrant, Dorota Rapacz, who came to the UK in 2001 and married eminent sculptor Antony Dufort. "It’s possible that it could be based on my wife," Dufort told Daily Mail. "I had to think long and hard about how to represent a strong young woman. It had to be something that fit in with tradition as well," he added. The sculptor, who also created the bronze sculpture of Margaret Thatcher which stands in the House of Commons, said that "it is definitely not based on the face of Lady Thatcher. It’s an amalgam of the faces of my female friends. All my models are friends." The mint described Britannia as "the people's heroine" and "a symbol of renewed optimism." Poles are the largest foreign group in the UK. Since 2002, nearly 1.2 million Poles have been issued with National Insurance numbers.