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| 裏面の説明 | A dynamic and highly detailed depiction of two warships engaged in close-quarters battle, representing HMS Victory, flagship of Admiral Horatio Nelson, locked in combat with the French ship-of-the-line Bucentaure during the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. Both vessels are shown with full rigging, billowing sails, and gun smoke, conveying the chaos and grandeur of the engagement. The legend ADMIRAL NELSON - VICTORY AT TRAFALGAR arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination PM $1000 appears in the lower field. |
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This piece belongs to a short run of ultra-high-relief kilo gold issues produced for the British Virgin Islands around the centenary commemorative market of the mid-2000s. Horatio Nelson's connection to the BVI is direct: his fleet used English Harbour in the broader Leeward Islands command structure, and Nelson himself patrolled these waters extensively in the 1780s enforcing the Navigation Acts — a largely thankless posting he reportedly despised.
At 1000g of .9999 fine gold, mintages were necessarily tiny, and surviving examples rarely reappear at auction outside Asian collector markets, where kilo bullion commemoratives found their deepest demand in this period.