Gibraltar's prolific commemorative program of the late 1990s and early 2000s produced dozens of royal-themed issues, and this piece marks the Queen Mother's centenary — one of the more genuinely remarkable milestones in modern royal history, given that she outlived her own husband by exactly fifty years and died just eighteen months after this coin was struck.
Gibraltar's prolific commemorative program of the late 1990s and early 2000s produced dozens of royal-themed issues, and this piece marks the Queen Mother's centenary — one of the more genuinely remarkable milestones in modern royal history, given that she outlived her own husband by exactly fifty years and died just eighteen months after this coin was struck.