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| Issuer | Tristan da Cunha |
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| Year | 2014 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse lettering | THE WORLD AT WAR KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON ONE CROWN |
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| Mintage | 2014 - - 19,995 |
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The "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster was never actually distributed during World War II — the Ministry of Information printed roughly 2.5 million copies in 1939 but withdrew them almost immediately, deeming the slogan patronizing. The design sat effectively unknown until a bookseller in Alnwick discovered a copy in 2000, triggering one of the more unlikely commercial revivals in British graphic history. By 2014, it had become a ubiquitous licensing property with no authentic wartime circulation story behind it.
Tristan da Cunha issues commemoratives under Crown authority but holds no independent mint facility; these are contract-struck pieces aimed squarely at the collector market.