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1 Crown - Elizabeth II The Solar System
| Issuer | Gibraltar Government |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing truncated bust of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, rendered in the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy style. The queen is depicted draped, with the designer's initials IRB appearing below the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II GIBRALTAR arcs above, with the date 2001 below, all within the coin's outer border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Gibraltar's government has issued commemorative crowns prolifically since the 1970s, making KM#927 one of hundreds of collector-targeted pieces from this dependency. The Solar System series appeared at a moment when Gibraltar was aggressively expanding its commemorative program into thematic science subjects — a commercial strategy rather than any monetary or historical imperative.
These struck in copper-nickel were intended for the collector market and saw no meaningful circulation.