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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Christmas 2021
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Weight | 12 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, crowned and draped, as designed by Raphael David Maklouf, occupying the copper-nickel centre field. The engraver's initials RDM appear truncated at the base of the portrait. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II · D · G · REGINA · GIBRALTAR, with the date 2021 appearing in the lower portion of the nickel brass ring. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH · II · D · G · REGINA · GIBRALTAR RDM · 2021 · |
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Gibraltar issues seasonal £2 pieces annually, and this 2021 Christmas entry is part of a long-running collector series aimed squarely at the holiday gift market rather than general circulation. The coins reach the public largely through the Gibraltar government's philatelic and numismatic bureau, which has operated such programmes since the 1990s to supplement the territory's revenues.
Genuine circulation of bimetallic £2 coins in Gibraltar is limited by the territory's small population of roughly 34,000 — UK sterling circulates alongside Gibraltarian issues interchangeably under longstanding monetary arrangements with Britain.