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1 Crown - Elizabeth II Diana, Princess of Wales
| Issuer | Ascension Island |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, diademed and wearing a pearl necklace and drop earring, with a draped bust. The portrait is rendered in fine relief with detailed hair and crown work, bearing the initials PM below the truncation indicating the engraver. The peripheral legend reads ELIZABETH II to the left and ASCENSION ISLAND to the right, with the date 2017 appearing above the effigy. |
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| Mintage | 2017 - - 10,000 |
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Ascension Island, a British Overseas Territory with a population rarely exceeding a thousand, has no indigenous coinage tradition and issues collector pieces almost exclusively through the Pobjoy Mint under license. This 2017 memorial issue marks the twentieth anniversary of Diana's death in Paris, part of a wave of commemoratives from British territories that year which flooded the collector market simultaneously.
The laminated alloy construction — rather than standard cupro-nickel — was a Pobjoy production choice that keeps costs down while allowing surface color effects not possible with homogeneous alloys.