Gibraltar has used commemorative crown issues since the 1970s as a revenue stream, licensing romantic British and Jacobite subjects with no particular historical connection to the Rock itself. Bonnie Prince Charlie — Charles Edward Stuart — never came close to Gibraltar; his 1745 rising collapsed at Derby, and he died in Rome in 1788, an alcoholic exile.
KM# 1312 is one of dozens of similar Gibraltar crowns from this period, struck at the Pobjoy Mint.
Gibraltar has used commemorative crown issues since the 1970s as a revenue stream, licensing romantic British and Jacobite subjects with no particular historical connection to the Rock itself. Bonnie Prince Charlie — Charles Edward Stuart — never came close to Gibraltar; his 1745 rising collapsed at Derby, and he died in Rome in 1788, an alcoholic exile.
KM# 1312 is one of dozens of similar Gibraltar crowns from this period, struck at the Pobjoy Mint.