Gibraltar's sports commemorative program has long operated as a revenue exercise rather than a reflection of local monetary need — the territory's everyday currency is the Gibraltar pound, and these crowns rarely if ever see genuine circulation. England's participation in the Six Nations is the nominal hook here, though Gibraltar fields its own rugby union team and competes in the Rugby Europe Championship, an awkward footnote when the issuing authority is celebrating a neighboring nation's sport.
Gibraltar's sports commemorative program has long operated as a revenue exercise rather than a reflection of local monetary need — the territory's everyday currency is the Gibraltar pound, and these crowns rarely if ever see genuine circulation. England's participation in the Six Nations is the nominal hook here, though Gibraltar fields its own rugby union team and competes in the Rugby Europe Championship, an awkward footnote when the issuing authority is celebrating a neighboring nation's sport.