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1 Crown - Elizabeth II 1937 Coronation
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Crown Coinage (1967-date) |
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| Reverse description | Central coronation scene depicting the crowning of Queen Elizabeth as Queen Consort at the 1937 coronation of King George VI. The Queen is shown seated and bowed, flanked by two robed ecclesiastical figures in richly embroidered vestments, one of whom places the crown upon her head. The date 1937 appears in the upper field above the group. The arc legend THE LIFE OF QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER curves around the upper periphery, while CROWNED QUEEN CONSORT appears in a straight legend above the denomination 1 CROWN at the base of the design. |
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| Mint | (PM) Pobjoy Mint, Surrey, United Kingdom (1965-2023) |
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Gibraltar's practice of issuing commemorative crowns tied to British royal events has no numismatic urgency behind it — these are licensing arrangements, not monetary necessity. This piece marks the 1937 coronation of George VI, issued sixty-three years after the fact, during a wave of millennium-themed retrospective issues that flooded the commemorative market around 2000.
KM#871 is one of dozens of Gibraltar crowns from this period sharing the same planchet specification, produced for the collector trade rather than circulation.