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1000 Pounds - Elizabeth II Prince Charles, 60th Birthday
| Issuer | States of Alderney |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Weight | 1090.86 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, as engraved by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the portrait truncation. The surrounding legend reads ALDERNEY ELIZABETH II IRB 2008 in Latin script. |
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| Reverse description | Left-facing bust of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, depicted in a suit and holding a cane with both hands, rendered in high relief against a decorative background featuring an intricate geometric lattice pattern on the left and stylised triangular and stepped motifs on the right. The date 2008 appears to the left of the figure, and the denomination 1000 POUNDS is inscribed along the lower arc of the coin in bold raised lettering. |
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Alderney has leveraged its Crown Dependency status to issue commemorative coinage well outside the constraints of UK monetary policy since the 1990s, and pieces like this sit at the extreme end of that practice — large-format gold issues with face values that bear no relationship to circulation reality. Charles turned 60 in November 2008, the same month Lehman Brothers' collapse was still convulsing global credit markets, which makes the timing of a kilogram-plus gold vanity piece quietly ironic.