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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Royal Arms of England
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing a tiara, rendered in the Ian Rank-Broadley portrait style. The truncation of the bust is unadorned. The circular legend around the periphery reads ELIZABETH II DEI GRA REGINA GIBRALTAR, with the denomination 2 POUNDS appearing in the lower field. The left field bears the fractional weight designation 1/5 TROY OUNCE, while the right field carries the purity inscription 9999 FINE GOLD. The design is framed by a beaded inner border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Gibraltar's Royal Arms issues have been a recurring vehicle for the territory's gold bullion program, which runs parallel to — but is legally distinct from — British Royal Mint output. The Arms depicted are those granted specifically to Gibraltar, not the full Royal Arms of England, a distinction the catalog title blurs.
The .9999 fineness places this strike in the post-2013 generation of Gibraltar gold, when the territory's issuing authority moved away from the .917 standard it had long shared with traditional British sovereign-weight coinage.