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1 Crown - Elizabeth II HMS Victory
| Issuer | Tristan da Cunha |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Thickness | 2.6 mm |
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| Obverse description | Crowned and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing a tiara and drop earrings, with a beaded border encircling the design. The legend HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper periphery, with the issuer initials TDC flanking a central dot at the lower right, and the date 2008 positioned at the base of the coin. |
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| Mintage | 2008 |
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Tristan da Cunha's geographic isolation — the most remote permanently inhabited archipelago on Earth, sitting roughly equidistant between South Africa and South America — gives its commemorative program an odd coherence. The island's dependency status under the British Crown makes HMS Victory a natural subject, though the ship itself never came within thousands of miles of the South Atlantic.
Victory was already a museum ship at Portsmouth by 2008, having been in continuous commission since 1778. She remains the world's oldest naval vessel still on the active list.