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1/2 Crown General Sikorski
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Currency | Crown Coinage (1967-date) |
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| Obverse description | The Arms of Gibraltar depicted centrally in the field, featuring a three-towered castle with a key suspended beneath, enclosed within a curved legend along the base reading MONTIS INSIGNIA CALPE. The legend GIBRALTAR arcs along the upper periphery, with the denomination 1/2 CROWN and date 2023 inscribed along the lower periphery. The design is rendered in high relief against a polished field. |
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| Obverse lettering | GIBRALTAR 2023 1/2 CROWN |
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Władysław Sikorski died on 4 July 1943 when his Liberator aircraft crashed into the sea seconds after takeoff from Gibraltar — the very territory issuing this coin. The cause was never conclusively determined. Postwar speculation ranged from mechanical failure to assassination, with Churchill's government and Soviet intelligence both implicated in conspiracy theories that persist in Polish historiography to this day.
A formal Polish investigation was reopened in 2008 and closed inconclusively in 2016.