200 Pounds - Elizabeth II Gothic - Portrait

Alderney's Gothic Portrait series revisits the 1839 Una and the Lion coinage — specifically William Wyon's Gothic crown portrait of Victoria, which was engraved for a pattern coin that never entered circulation but became one of the most admired pieces of 19th-century British minting. The 2021 issue adapts that aesthetic lineage for Elizabeth II, commissioning a portrait in deliberate stylistic homage to Wyon's original treatment.

At two troy ounces of four-nines gold, these were produced in severely limited quantities as collector bullion. Alderney, a British Crown dependency with its own issuing authority but no independent central bank, has used that status since the 1990s to produce numismatic pieces that circulate nowhere but sell everywhere.