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1/4 Sovereign - Elizabeth II Queen Victoria
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Weight | 1.99 g |
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| Reverse description | Left-facing Young Head portrait effigy of Queen Victoria, rendered in high relief with fine detail to the hair, which is drawn back and tied with a ribbon. The uncrowned, bare-headed bust is presented in a classical style evoking the original William Wyon Young Head portrait used on Victorian coinage. The Latin legend arcs around the upper field of the coin. |
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| Mintage | 2019 - Proof |
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Gibraltar has issued legal tender gold coinage under royal warrant since the late 1980s, exploiting a constitutional quirk that allows the territory to produce coins independently of the Royal Mint. The quarter sovereign denomination itself has no historical precedent in British coinage — it was a commercial invention of the modern bullion market, introduced in 1853 only as a pattern and never circulated, then revived by private and territorial mints in the 21st century purely as a fractional gold vehicle.
The pairing of Elizabeth II with Victoria on a 2019 issue marks the year Elizabeth surpassed Victoria as Britain's longest-reigning monarch — a milestone that had already passed in 2015, making the four-year lag in commemorative timing a minor curatorial oddity.