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1 Crown - Elizabeth II The Pillars of Hercules
| Issuer | Gibraltar Government |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Composition | Bimetallic: gold (.999) centre in silver (.925) ring (1 gram gold) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, executed in the third portrait style by Raphael David Maklouf, depicting the Queen wearing the George IV State Diadem, drop earrings, and a pearl necklace. The draped bust is rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left rim, while GIBRALTAR and the date 1997 appear to the right, all in Latin script. The engraver's initials RDM and the Pobjoy Mint mark PM appear in small characters at the lower right of the truncation. A fine beaded border runs along the coin's periphery. |
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| Reverse description | Central bimetallic composition featuring a gold insert bearing an ancient-style depiction of Hercules wearing the Nemean Lion skin cap, inspired by a coin dated to 336 BC, set within a silver outer ring. The gold centre is inset against a stylised representation of the Rock of Gibraltar. The upper legend reads WONDERS OF THE WORLD, the lower arc bears THE PILLARS OF HERCULES, and the denomination 1 CROWN appears at the base, all in Latin script within the silver ring. |
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Gibraltar's 1997 coinage program leaned heavily into its geographic identity — the territory sits at the mouth of the Mediterranean where ancient cartographers placed the boundary of the known world. The bimetallic format here is deliberate: the gold centre reads as the rock itself, the silver ring as surrounding sea.
Only one gram of the gold is .999 fine, making this more a novelty bimetallic than a bullion piece — the silver ring carries most of the mass.