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.
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.