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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Egbert of Wessex
| Issuer | Falkland Islands |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | ROYAL HERITAGE · EGBERT OF WESSEX · 802 · 839 · |
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Egbert of Wessex, who died in 839, is often cited as the first king to exercise overlordship over all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms — though that claim was largely a later political construction promoted by his descendants to legitimize West Saxon dominance. This 1996 issue belongs to a broader series of British colonial commemoratives produced by the Pobjoy Mint on behalf of the Falkland Islands, a jurisdiction with no historical connection to ninth-century English kingship whatsoever.
KM#47 is one of several issues in the run tracking early English monarchs, timed loosely to royal anniversary marketing rather than any specific historical commemoration.