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1 Crown - Elizabeth II Francis Drake
| Issuer | Government of Gibraltar |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a central composition depicting a three-masted Elizabethan galleon under full sail, set against a coastal landscape with palm trees to the left and rocky outcrops to the right. In the lower left field, a cannon and barrel are depicted as attributes of maritime trade and exploration. To the lower right, a bearded portrait bust of Sir Francis Drake in Elizabethan ruff collar faces left, with the identifying inscription SIR FRANCIS DRAKE beside it. The arched legend TRADERS OF THE WORLD curves along the upper periphery, while the denomination 1 CROWN is displayed in the lower field. |
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Issued to mark the 400th anniversary of Drake's death off the coast of Portobelo, Panama, in January 1596 — he died of dysentery aboard his own ship and was buried at sea in a lead coffin. Gibraltar's connection to Drake is indirect at best; the Rock changed hands between Spain and England definitively only in 1713 under the Treaty of Utrecht, more than a century after Drake made his reputation harassing Spanish colonial shipping in the same Atlantic waters.