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1 Crown - Elizabeth II Battle of Hastings

Issuer Gibraltar
Year 2008
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Shape Round
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Reverse script Latin
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Edge Reeded
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Gibraltar has issued commemorative crowns in such volume — dozens of themes annually across multiple metals — that individual copper-nickel strikes from the mid-2000s rarely attract serious collector attention. This one marks the 942nd anniversary of the battle, an oddly non-milestone year that suggests the piece was driven by licensing schedules rather than historical significance. Harold's defeat at Senlac Hill in October 1066 ended Anglo-Saxon kingship permanently, but Gibraltar's connection to that event is purely commercial.

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