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1 Crown - Elizabeth II Sabretooth Tiger
| Issuer | Government of Gibraltar |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a powerfully rendered sabre-toothed tiger (Smilodon) in a crouching, forward-stalking posture atop a rocky outcrop, its distinctive elongated upper canines prominently displayed with mouth agape. The naturalistic figure occupies the majority of the field, rendered with fine linear detail suggesting musculature and fur. The inscription SABRE TOOTHED TIGER appears in the right field. The thematic legend PRESERVE PLANET EARTH curves along the upper periphery, while the denomination 1 CROWN is inscribed at the base, all within a plain border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Gibraltar's wildlife-themed crown series of the 1990s was a commercial licensing exercise aimed squarely at the collector market, with the sabretooth issue timed to capitalize on renewed popular interest in Pleistocene megafauna following the early 1990s surge in prehistoric natural history programming. These pieces saw no meaningful circulation — Gibraltar's economy ran on sterling, and crowns of this weight and size were never intended as spending money.