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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II The Apples of the Hesperides
| Issuer | Gibraltar Government |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Weight | 12 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Within the copper-nickel centre, a classical scene depicting three figures in the neoclassical style: Hercules stands centrally, muscular and wearing a lion-skin, supported by the Titan Atlas on the right who presents a basket overflowing with golden apples, while a female figure — one of the Hesperides — stands to the left. A tablet in the lower centre field bears the inscription THE APPLES OF THE HESPERIDES, and a Greek-key decorative frieze runs along the base. The denomination numeral 2 appears below the inner circle, with POUNDS inscribed along the lower arc of the outer nickel-brass ring, and THE LABOURS OF HERCULES around the upper arc. |
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Part of Gibraltar's long-running Labours of Hercules series, this issue commemorates the eleventh labour — retrieving the golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides, a task complicated by the fact that Hercules first had to persuade Atlas to fetch them while temporarily bearing the weight of the sky himself. Gibraltar's particular attachment to Hercules is geographic: the Rock is one of the two Pillars of Hercules, the mythological boundary markers he erected at the edge of the known world.