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1 Crown - Elizabeth II The Earth

Issuer Gibraltar
Year 2001
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Engraver(s) Ian Rank-Broadley
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Obverse lettering ELIZABETH II GIBRALTAR 2001 IRB
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Edge Reeded
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Gibraltar's commemorative crown program in the late 1990s and early 2000s produced dozens of themed issues annually, many with limited numismatic ambition beyond filling collector sets. This particular piece was issued under the authority of the Gibraltar government, which has maintained the right to produce its own coinage distinct from UK issues since 1842 — a consequence of the territory's unique constitutional position rather than any monetary independence from sterling.

KM#934 is one of several "Earth" or environmental-themed crowns from this period, a genre that proliferated across small British territories during these years.

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