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.
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.