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1000 Pounds - Elizabeth II Royal Wedding
| Issuer | States of Alderney |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | ALDERNEY 1000 POUNDS ELIZABETH II IRB 2011 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued to mark the April 2011 marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, this is one of the largest commemorative coins ever produced under a British crown dependency's authority. Alderney — a self-governing island of roughly 2,000 people — has long leveraged its issuing rights to produce prestige bullion pieces that no mainland British authority would sanction at this scale.
At just over a kilogram of 22-carat gold, the practical audience was always institutional collectors and bullion investors rather than anyone pretending it might circulate.