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| Issuer | Government of Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II · DEI · GRA REGINA · GIBRALTAR RDM 70 · 2022 · (Translation: Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God Queen) |
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Gibraltar's sovereign issues occupy a peculiar corner of numismatic legitimacy — the territory has issued coins under the Crown since the 1970s, but its sovereign-denomination pieces exist largely outside mainstream British numismatic collecting. This 2022 platinum strike marks Elizabeth II's 70-year reign, the longest in British history, issued in the final months before her death in September of that year.
Platinum sovereigns remain an extreme rarity in the broader sovereign series. The Royal Mint itself has issued platinum sovereigns only in very limited runs, making Gibraltar's own platinum sovereign a genuine outlier in an already niche denomination.