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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Richard I The Lionheart
| Issuer | Falkland Islands |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Third portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the George IV State Diadem and pearl drop earrings, with a draped neckline. The legend QUEEN ELIZABETH II · 1996 · FALKLAND ISLANDS arcs around the upper periphery, while · 2 POUNDS · appears along the lower periphery. The initials RDM, denoting engraver Raphael David Maklouf, appear below the truncation. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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This issue is one of several in a Falkland Islands commemorative series marking figures from British medieval history — a curious choice of subject for a South Atlantic territory, but entirely deliberate. The Falklands government leaned heavily on the British Crown connection throughout the 1990s, particularly in the years following the 1982 conflict, when asserting cultural and political ties to Britain carried weight beyond the numismatic.
Richard I spent fewer than six months of his ten-year reign in England, financing his Crusade campaigns largely by selling offices, titles, and land — famously remarking he would sell London itself if he could find a buyer.