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1 Crown - Elizabeth II Wedding of Charles and Camilla
| Issuer | Tristan da Cunha |
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| Year | 2005 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the third portrait by Raphael Maklouf, wearing a pearl necklace and earring, with an ornate tiara and necklace rendered in fine detail. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the left rim and TDC ONE CROWN along the right rim, both in raised Latin lettering. The date 2005 appears in the lower exergue. The portrait is set against a highly polished mirror field, characteristic of proof coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II TDC ONE CROWN 2005 |
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The April 2005 wedding of Charles and Camilla was itself a logistical and constitutional scramble — postponed by one day to allow Charles to attend Pope John Paul II's funeral, it required an unprecedented legal review to confirm that the Royal Marriages Act 1772 did not bar a future monarch from a civil ceremony. Tristan da Cunha, a British Overseas Territory so remote that its entire population was temporarily evacuated to England in 1961 following a volcanic eruption, issues commemorative coinage primarily through the Pobjoy Mint as a revenue mechanism rather than for domestic circulation.