1 Crown - Elizabeth II Boston Tea Party, Silver Proof

Gibraltar has issued commemorative crowns tied to British and American history with some regularity, and this 1998 piece marks the 225th anniversary of the 1773 Boston Tea Party — an event in which colonists boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and destroyed 342 chests of East India Company tea in protest against the Tea Act. The political irony of a British Crown dependency issuing a coin commemorating colonial resistance to British taxation is considerable, and largely unremarked in the numismatic literature.