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100 Pounds 90th Birthday of Queen Mother
| Issuer | Falkland Islands |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Value | 100 Pounds |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER · 1900 · 1990 · |
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Issued in the year Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon turned 90, this coin belongs to a wave of Commonwealth commemoratives that flooded the market in the late 1980s and early 1990s — a period when several smaller territories, Falkland Islands among them, were aggressively licensing royal themes to generate revenue. The Falklands had particular reason to cultivate the relationship: the 1982 conflict had made the islands politically visible in a way they had never been, and royal commemoratives reinforced that British identity with deliberate intent.
Struck close to one troy ounce in .999 gold, the piece was produced in limited quantities for the collector market and saw no meaningful circulation.