1 Crown - Elizabeth II Calpe Conference

The Calpe Conference takes its name from the ancient Greco-Roman designation for the Rock of Gibraltar — Calpe being one of the two Pillars of Hercules. The conference itself is a periodic gathering of parliamentarians from Gibraltar and its surrounding region, part of the ongoing diplomatic maneuvering over the territory's status. This coin was issued the same year Spain and the UK resumed formal trilateral talks on sovereignty, a process Gibraltar's own government viewed with open hostility.