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1 Sovereign - Elizabeth II Year of the Three Kings - George V
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley. The sovereign's name and royal title appear in the surrounding legend in Latin, with the date below. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The "Year of the Three Kings" refers to 1936, when George V died in January, Edward VIII abdicated in December, and George VI acceded — all within twelve months. Gibraltar's commemorative sovereign series has leaned heavily on this kind of dynastic drama, and the 1936 sequence is the most compressed succession in modern British royal history. George V's death at Sandringham was later shown to have been hastened by his physician, Lord Dawson of Penn, who administered lethal injections of morphine and cocaine — a fact kept from the public for decades.