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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II The Queen Mother's 90th Birthday
| Issuer | Guernsey |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | Central device comprising two interlaced and mirror-imaged cursive letter Es, forming the royal cypher of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, surmounted by a coronet. Flanking the cypher on either side are sprays of flowers including irises and lilies. The legend QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER arcs around the upper field, while the dates 1900 and 1990, marking the Queen Mother's birth and 90th birthday respectively, appear in the lower field on either side of a central dot. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the Queen Mother's 90th birthday in 1990, this was one of dozens of commemorative two-pound pieces produced by British Crown Dependencies during the late 1980s and 1990s — a period when Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man competed aggressively for the collector market with high-volume commemorative programs. The Queen Mother remained one of the most commercially reliable subjects in that trade.
KM#53 was struck in copper-nickel rather than the silver variants issued concurrently, keeping it firmly in the souvenir tier.