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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 100th Anniversary of the House of Windsor
| Issuer | Tokelau |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the fourth definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank-Broadley, depicted as a right-facing diademed and draped bust set within a central circular raised field. Surrounding the portrait, the circular legend reads 'ELIZABETH II · TOKELAU 2017 · ONE DOLLAR' above and '· 1 OZ 999 SILVER ·' below, interrupted at the base by the Southern Cross mintmark. The coin's distinctive quatrefoil shape extends beyond the central roundel, with the four lobes elaborately decorated in high relief with the floral emblems of the United Kingdom — the Tudor rose (top), shamrock (left), thistle (right), and leek or iris (bottom) — all set against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Tokelau — three atolls with a combined land area under 12 square kilometers and no indigenous coinage tradition — has issued collector silver almost continuously since 2012, largely through arrangements with the New Zealand Mint. These pieces circulate nowhere and exist entirely for the numismatic market.
The House of Windsor name was adopted by royal proclamation in July 1917, a deliberate break from the dynastic name Saxe-Coburg and Gotha during peak anti-German sentiment in World War I. George V made the change under considerable political pressure, and the German branch of the family — the Battenbergs — simultaneously anglicized to Mountbatten.