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.
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.