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Britain's Royal Mint has launched a £2 coin to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA by James Watson and his British colleague Francis Crick. The coin may also help expand the vocabulary of the common person with the inscription "deoxyribonucleic acid" on the edge.