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250 Maloti Royal Wedding
| Issuer | Lesotho |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Lesotho is centrally displayed, featuring a quartered shield supported by two rearing horses, with a crocodile at the crest and a banner below bearing the national motto 'KHOTSO PULA NALA'. The legend 'KINGDOM OF LESOTHO' arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination '250 MALOTI' is inscribed in the lower field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued to commemorate the July 1981 marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer, this piece was part of a wave of gold commemoratives struck by Commonwealth and associated nations capitalizing on global interest in the event. Lesotho, a small landlocked kingdom entirely surrounded by South Africa, issued through the same period a broader series of royal and national commemoratives that served largely as revenue-generating instruments for the government rather than circulating coinage.
KM#31 shares its gold specification with the standard sovereign-derived weight then common among Commonwealth commemorative issues of the era — a deliberate choice to appeal to bullion-minded buyers alongside collectors.