Issued the year of what would have been Grace Kelly's 67th birthday, this piece belongs to Gibraltar's aggressive commemorative program of the 1990s — a period when the territory minted dozens of celebrity and event issues aimed squarely at the collector market rather than circulation. Kelly's connection to Gibraltar is oblique at best; the territory's proximity to Monaco provided the thinnest of geographical pretexts.
Issued the year of what would have been Grace Kelly's 67th birthday, this piece belongs to Gibraltar's aggressive commemorative program of the 1990s — a period when the territory minted dozens of celebrity and event issues aimed squarely at the collector market rather than circulation. Kelly's connection to Gibraltar is oblique at best; the territory's proximity to Monaco provided the thinnest of geographical pretexts.