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1 Pound - Elizabeth II Sir Francis Drake
| Issuer | States of Alderney |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, as modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley whose initials IRB appear below the portrait truncation. The peripheral legend reads ALDERNEY ELIZABETH II IRB 2008, with the issuer name and date flanking the royal portrait. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Alderney's gold issues occupy a peculiar corner of British Crown Dependency coinage — legally valid tender under Guernsey authority, though produced exclusively for the collector market. Drake's circumnavigation of 1577–1580 was officially a privateering operation sanctioned by Elizabeth I, who took a personal share of the plunder from the Golden Hind — a fact the Crown was careful never to publicize at the time, given the diplomatic fallout with Spain it would have caused.