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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II 90th Birthday of Queen Mother
| Issuer | Jersey |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Value | 2 Pounds |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Struck to mark the Queen Mother's 90th birthday in 1990, this Jersey gold issue belongs to a wave of Commonwealth commemoratives that flooded the market during the late 1980s and early 1990s — a period when several Crown Dependencies leveraged their issuing authority aggressively for collector revenue. Jersey's relationship with the Crown is constitutionally distinct from the United Kingdom proper; the island owes allegiance to the monarch personally, not to the British Parliament, a quirk traceable to the Norman Conquest.
KM#83b designates the gold variant within a multi-metal commemorative program for this issue.