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1 Crown - Elizabeth II 4th portrait, VE Day
| Issuer | Tristan da Cunha |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Currency | Crown (1978-date) |
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| Obverse description | Fourth-portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, with elaborately styled hair and a draped neckline with decorative collar detail. The legend ELIZABETH II runs along the left field and TRISTAN DA CUNHA along the right field, both in raised Latin characters within a beaded border. The date 2005 appears in the lower exergue. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II TRISTAN DA CUNHA 2005 |
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Tristan da Cunha, the most remote permanently inhabited island on earth, issues commemorative coinage through the British Crown dependency system despite having no functioning retail economy — coins are sold to collectors, never spent locally. The 60th anniversary of VE Day in 2005 prompted a wave of Crown-sized issues across British territories, and Tristan's version is one of several near-identical pieces distinguished mainly by issuer name.
The fourth Jody Clark portrait had not yet replaced Raphael Maklouf's third effigy at this date — it was Ian Rank-Broadley's version in use here, introduced in 1998.