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1/25 Crown - Elizabeth II Tom Kitten
| Issuer | Government of Gibraltar |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Composition | Gold (.9999) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1993 - Proof - 25,000 |
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Part of Gibraltar's long-running Beatrix Potter gold series, this miniature issue was produced at a moment when fractional gold coins were being aggressively marketed to collectors across the Commonwealth as affordable entry points into bullion-linked collecting. The 1/25 Crown denomination had no circulation purpose — it was a collector instrument from the outset, sold at a premium well above spot.
Potter's characters entered the public domain in various jurisdictions at differing times, making licensing arrangements for coin programs in the early 1990s a genuinely complicated legal exercise.