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1 Crown - Elizabeth II Pearl Harbor
| Issuer | Government of Tristan da Cunha |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Weight | 25 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse commemorates the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, featuring three overlapping right-facing busts of American servicemen and women in uniform set against a backdrop of a burning warship and billowing smoke clouds. A circular silver-colored medallion inset in the upper right field bears the numeral '75' encircled by a laurel wreath, denoting the anniversary. The legend 'PEARL HARBOR' arcs along the upper left periphery, the date '1941' appears in the lower left field, and the denomination 'ONE CROWN' is inscribed along the lower exergue. |
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| Reverse lettering | PEARL HARBOR 75 1941 ONE CROWN |
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Tristan da Cunha, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic with a permanent population under 300, has issued commemorative crowns since the 1970s — most bearing no relationship whatsoever to the island's own history. This Pearl Harbor piece marks the 75th anniversary of the December 1941 attack, a subject with no territorial or administrative connection to Tristan da Cunha beyond the issuing authority's willingness to license the topic.
KM# 101 belongs to a long run of similar gold-plated issues produced for the collector market rather than circulation on the island, where coins rarely change hands at all.