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1 Crown - Elizabeth II F.F.S. Savorgnan de Brazza
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | A detailed three-quarter starboard broadside view of the Free French sloop F.F.S. Savorgnan de Brazza underway at sea, rendered in high relief against a plain field with stylised wave elements below the hull. The ship's name, F.F.S. SAVORGNAN de BRAZZA, is inscribed in two lines across the lower central field, while the series inscription WARSHIPS OF WORLD WAR II curves along the upper border. The denomination 1 CROWN appears in the lower exergue, with the numeral enclosed in a circular cartouche. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 CROWN WARSHIPS OF WORLD WAR II F.F.S. SAVORGNAN de BRAZZA |
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Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza was an Italian-born French explorer who negotiated, rather than conquered, much of what became French Equatorial Africa — famously securing treaties with King Makoko of the Teke people in 1880 without firing a shot, pre-empting Stanley's advance up the Congo for Leopold II of Belgium. Gibraltar's habit of issuing crowns commemorating figures with no geographic connection to the Rock made it one of the most prolific — and commercially driven — crown issuers of the 1990s.