1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Gloucestershire Old Spots

The Gloucestershire Old Spots is one of Britain's oldest recorded pig breeds, documented by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust as a priority native breed for much of the late twentieth century before numbers recovered sufficiently to be downlisted. Perth Mint's ongoing Animals of Britain and Ireland series has drawn on precisely this kind of conservation profile — breeds with a specific regional identity and a measurable endangerment history — to justify the subject matter. The Old Spots' association with the apple orchards of the Severn Vale, where windfall fruit was historically said to cause the breed's distinctive spotting, is folklore rather than genetics, but it has defined the animal's cultural identity for centuries.