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1/4 Sovereign - Elizabeth II Battle of Hastings
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem, after the portrait by Raphael David Maklouf. The Queen appears with bare neck and shoulders in a draped bust. The circumferential legend reads ELIZABETH · II · DEI · GRA · REGINA · GIBRALTAR, with the date 2016 positioned below the portrait in the lower field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Gibraltar's legal authority to strike gold sovereigns and fractions derives from a Royal Warrant, the same instrument that governs Royal Mint sovereign production — an arrangement that has made the territory a prolific issuer of commemorative gold since the 1990s. This piece marks the 950th anniversary of Hastings, the engagement that ended Anglo-Saxon kingship in England permanently. Harold II's death on 14 October 1066 — whether by arrow or sword remains genuinely disputed by historians — left no viable claimant to resist William's subsequent coronation on Christmas Day.