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1 Crown - Elizabeth II WW1 Land, Gold Plated
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1522a |
| Obverse description | Right-facing truncated effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem, as modelled by engraver Raphael David Maklouf. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a polished field. The legend ELIZABETH II QUEEN OF GIBRALTAR arcs around the upper periphery, with the date 2014 and the engraver's initials RDM positioned below the bust. |
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| Edge | Milled |
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Gibraltar's commemorative crown program has long operated as a revenue-generating exercise rather than a circulation mandate, and this 2014 issue is squarely in that tradition — produced for the centenary of the First World War's outbreak. The land campaign commemorated here encompassed some of the war's most catastrophic engagements, from the Marne to Passchendaele, where British and Commonwealth forces suffered casualties that reshaped the demographic makeup of entire counties.
The gold plating over copper-nickel places this firmly in the collector gift market rather than the numismatic mainstream. The KM#1522a suffix distinguishes it from a standard cupro-nickel strike of the same type.