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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Emergency Ambulance
| Issuer | Guernsey |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse description | Fourth definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, as modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley. The truncation bears the engraver's initials IRB. The peripheral legend reads ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY, with the date 2011 at lower right. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Guernsey has long issued commemorative two-pound pieces tied to local and British heritage subjects, and this ambulance issue falls into a series marking emergency services. The island's St. John Ambulance connection dates to the late nineteenth century, with Guernsey maintaining an unusually autonomous volunteer structure relative to its British counterparts throughout the twentieth century.