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1 Crown - Elizabeth II Road to Victory - Operation Torch
| Issuer | Government of Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Value | 1 Crown (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, as designed by Raphael David Maklouf, occupying the central field. The Queen wears a tiara and a drop earring, with her hair styled in short curls. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II · D · G · REGINA · GIBRALTAR, with the date 2019 at lower right and the denomination ONE CROWN along the lower rim, all in raised Latin lettering. |
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| Obverse lettering | · ELIZABETH II · D · G · REGINA · GIBRALTAR · 2019 · ONE CROWN |
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Operation Torch, launched in November 1942, was the Anglo-American amphibious landings in French North Africa — the first large-scale U.S. ground offensive of the war in the European theater. Gibraltar was operationally central: Eisenhower commanded the entire invasion from the Rock's tunnels, making it the first time a combined Allied force had been directed from British soil outside the mainland.
This is a modern commemorative struck in gold-plated cupro-nickel, one of several in Gibraltar's extended "Road to Victory" series cycling through major WWII operations.