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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Queen Mother's 90th Birthday, Silver Piedfort
| Issuer | Alderney |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | Central cameo portrait of Queen Mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon facing left, encircled by a decorative beaded oval frame. The central effigy is surrounded by an arrangement of blooming and budding roses with crossed stems in the lower field, filling the inner design area. The commemorative legend THE QUEEN MOTHER NINETIETH BIRTHDAY curves along the upper periphery, while the issuer name and denomination ALDERNEY · TWO POUNDS · appear along the lower periphery, all separated by raised dots. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Alderney — the smallest of the inhabited Channel Islands — gained the right to issue its own commemorative coinage only in 1989, making this piedfort among the very first coins struck under that authority. The Queen Mother's 90th birthday provided the occasion for one of the earliest exercises of that new privilege.
Piedforts of this issue were struck at double the standard planchet thickness, a French minting tradition revived by the Royal Mint in the 1980s primarily for collector sets.