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1 Pound - Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee
| Issuer | States of Alderney |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Diameter | 13.92 mm |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the third portrait by Raphael David Maklouf, depicting the Queen wearing the George IV State Diadem. The legend ELIZABETH II runs along the left periphery and ALDERNEY along the right periphery, with the date 2002 positioned in the lower exergue. The designer's initials RDM appear truncated at the bust. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alderney's Golden Jubilee gold pound belongs to a wave of commemorative issues authorized by the island's States assembly in the early 2000s, when small-denomination gold pieces in this fractional weight class were aggressively marketed to collectors across the Channel Islands and Britain. Alderney, the smallest of the three main bailiwicks and with a civilian population only resettled after German occupation ended in 1945, had no indigenous coinage tradition — its commemorative program is entirely a modern revenue exercise.
KM#91 is one of several concurrent Jubilee strikes from Alderney, each targeting a different collector tier by weight.