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100 Pounds - Elizabeth II Bonomi Pattern - Victoria
| Issuer | Ascension Island (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha) |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Bare-headed and diademed bust of Queen Victoria facing left, rendered in the neoclassical style after the original 1837 pattern portrait by Joseph Bonomi. The young queen's hair is drawn smoothly back and secured in a chignon, with a plain fillet diadem across the brow and a small pendant earring visible. The surrounding legend VICTORIA REG DEI GRA arcs around the upper field, with the accession year 18 37 divided at the lower left and lower right. A decorative border of five-pointed stars encircles the design, set against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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Ivor Bonomi was a British designer who produced pattern coinage for various Commonwealth territories in the postwar decades — pieces that were submitted for official consideration but never adopted for circulation. This 2021 issue revisits one of those rejected Victorian-era pattern designs, effectively a tribute to a coin that never was. The kilogram silver format places it firmly in the modern commemorative bullion category, where Ascension Island has become a surprisingly active issuer despite having no permanent civilian population.