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1 Crown - Elizabeth II Vera Lynn - Forget Me Not Today
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Composition | Gold (.999) plated tombac |
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| Obverse description | Fourth crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, as modelled by Raphael David Maklouf, wearing the George IV State Diadem and a drop earring. The portrait occupies the central field, rendered in fine relief against a mirror-polished background. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II D G REGINA GIBRALTAR 2020, separated by raised dots, with ONE CROWN inscribed along the lower arc. |
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| Obverse lettering | · ELIZABETH II · D · G · REGINA · GIBRALTAR · 2020 · ONE CROWN |
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Gibraltar has issued commemorative crowns in staggering volume since the 1990s, and this 2020 piece honoring Vera Lynn arrived just months before her death in June of that year at age 103. Lynn's association with "Forget Me Not" — and with wartime memory more broadly — traces to her 1939–1945 ENSA performances for British and Allied troops in Burma, Egypt, and India, concerts that earned her the enduring title "The Forces' Sweetheart" from the soldiers themselves, not from any official designation.
Tombac, a brass alloy, was adopted widely for commemorative crowns as a cost-effective substitute for silver after the 1990 abandonment of sterling in this format.