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1/2 Crown - Elizabeth II R.A.F., Churchill's Famous Words
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | Five Royal Air Force pilots in full flying kit — including leather helmets, goggles, and flight suits — are depicted in dynamic forward motion, scrambling toward their aircraft against a backdrop of billowing cumulus clouds rendered in relief. The central lead figure faces the viewer directly, conveying urgency and resolve. The surrounding legend, divided between the upper and lower periphery, bears Winston Churchill's celebrated tribute to the RAF from his 1940 speech: NEVER WAS SO MUCH OWED · BY SO MANY TO SO FEW, separated by raised dot stops. |
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| Mintage | 2020 - Brilliant Uncirculated |
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Gibraltar has issued commemorative half crowns prolifically since the 1990s, and this 2020 piece marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain — the Luftwaffe campaign that ran from July to October 1940 and ended in the first major German strategic defeat of the war. Churchill's address to Parliament on 20 August 1940, from which the commemorated phrase derives, was delivered while the battle was still being fought, not in retrospect.
The half crown denomination itself had been abolished in the United Kingdom in 1969 during decimalization, giving Gibraltar's continued use of it a distinctly antiquarian character.