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1000 Dobras Diana - Queen of the Hearts
| Issuer | São Tomé and Príncipe |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Weight | 31.10 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A high-relief portrait bust of Diana, Princess of Wales, is depicted in right-facing profile, her hair swept windswept beneath a wide-brimmed hat. Flanking her on both sides are groups of smiling figures rendered in lower relief, symbolising her humanitarian work and connection with the public. A decorative floral border curves along the lower portion of the field, above which the inscriptions DIANA, QUEEN OF THE HEARTS, and the dates 1961–1997 appear in the exergual area. |
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Issued as part of the wave of tribute coinage that flooded world mints in the months following Diana's death in Paris on 31 August 1997, this piece is one of dozens of commemoratives produced by small-island nations with little direct connection to the British royal family. São Tomé and Príncipe, a former Portuguese colony with a population under 150,000, licensed its name to several foreign bullion distributors during the 1990s for exactly this kind of issue.
The "Queen of Hearts" title derived from Diana's own phrasing in her November 1995 Panorama interview with Martin Bashir.