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| Issuer | Pobjoy Mint |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust of Queen Elizabeth II wearing a tiara, rendered in high relief against a mirrored proof field. The effigy is after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the truncation. The legend BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS arcs along the upper left periphery, QUEEN ELIZABETH II along the upper right, and the date 2008 appears at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS QUEEN ELIZABETH II 2008 IRB |
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Pobjoy Mint has produced commemorative issues for smaller territories and dependent jurisdictions since the 1970s, and this piece falls squarely in that tradition — almost certainly struck for one of the Isle of Man, British Virgin Islands, or similar Crown-adjacent issuing authorities that routinely license historical British monarch series. Mary I, England's first queen regnant, ruled from 1553 to 1558 and reversed the Protestant reforms of her father and brother through a restoration of papal authority that resulted in nearly 300 Protestant executions — earning her the epithet "Bloody Mary" within years of her death.