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1 Crown - Elizabeth II King Richard III
| Issuer | Gibraltar Government |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1999 - UNC |
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This crown was issued as part of Gibraltar's extensive commemorative program marking the 1999 anniversaries surrounding Richard III, a monarch whose reputation has been contested since the Tudor chroniclers — most notably More and Holinshed — systematically blackened it to legitimize Henry VII's claim. Whether Richard ordered the deaths of the Princes in the Tower remains genuinely unresolved; the bones discovered in 1674 and interred in Westminster Abbey have never been definitively identified by modern forensic analysis.
Richard's remains, rediscovered beneath a Leicester car park in 2012, were confirmed by mitochondrial DNA matching a maternal-line descendant — a finding that came thirteen years after this coin was struck.