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1/5 Crown - Elizabeth II Long Jumper and Kangaroo
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 1999-2000 |
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| Value | 1/5 Crown (1/20) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Gibraltar's late-1990s gold fractional program was commercially driven — these were bullion-adjacent collector pieces issued under the authority of a Crown dependency with virtually no domestic gold coinage tradition. The pairing of an athletics motif with a kangaroo on a Gibraltar issue is a direct reference to the 1999–2000 Sydney Olympic cycle, placing this squarely in the wave of Olympic-themed issues that flooded the collector market in the two years preceding the Games.
The .9999 fineness matches the standard set by the Royal Canadian Mint's Maple Leaf, then the global benchmark for fine gold coinage purity.