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1 Crown - Elizabeth II Silhouettes - Fourth Portrait
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem, with drop earring visible, rendered in the fourth portrait style as modelled by Raphael David Maklouf. The queen's hair is styled in characteristic curled waves beneath the ornate crown. The encircling legend reads ELIZABETH II · D · G · REGINA · GIBRALTAR · 2021 across the upper field, with · ONE CROWN · continuing along the lower arc. The designer's initials RDM appear discreetly below the truncation of the bust. |
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| Reverse description | A bold silhouette portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth, depicted as a child in right-facing profile wearing a ruffled collar, enclosed within an ornamental wreath of stylised floral and foliate motifs rendered in high relief against the mirror-polished field. A beaded inner border frames the entire composition. The date 1926, commemorating the year of her birth, is inscribed in serif numerals at the top of the design above the silhouette, flanked by floral elements of the wreath. No additional legend appears on the reverse. |
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Gibraltar's Crown series has long served as a vehicle for commemorative issues aimed squarely at the collector market, with the "Silhouettes" release continuing that tradition. The fourth portrait of Elizabeth II — the Maklouf effigy introduced in 1985 — was already being phased out across Commonwealth issues by the time this piece was struck, making its appearance here a quiet anachronism in the final years of her reign.