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| Issuer | Pobjoy Mint |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Diademed and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, rendered in the Ian Rank-Broadley portrait style. The legend BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS arcs along the upper left periphery, while QUEEN ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper right, and the date 2004 appears at the lower right field. The bust is finely detailed with the Queen's characteristic tiara and curled hair, set against a plain polished field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Pobjoy Mint has produced commemorative issues for Isle of Man and various smaller territories since the 1970s, and by the early 2000s had built a niche in licensed literary and entertainment themes. The Beatrix Potter franchise — administered through Frederick Warne & Co. — was an active licensing property at this point, with the centenary of the original 1902 publication of *The Tale of Peter Rabbit* driving a wave of commemorative merchandise and collector issues worldwide.
The .9999 fineness here is a deliberate commercial choice over the more common .9167 used in many bullion-adjacent commemoratives, positioning this squarely at the premium collector market rather than the bullion trade.