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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II 1966 FIFA World Cup, Gold
| Issuer | Alderney |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | ALDERNEY FIVE POUNDS ELIZABETH II 2016 IRB |
| Reverse description | Central design featuring a large football overlaid with a world map, upon which is superimposed the Jules Rimet Trophy — depicted as a winged Nike figure atop a pedestal — and the Three Lions heraldic shield of England positioned in the lower foreground. The design is set within a milled border with decorative cut-out segments. The circular legend around the rim reads WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP · JULES RIMET CUP · ENGLAND, with the date 1966 inscribed along the lower portion. |
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Alderney has no meaningful connection to the 1966 World Cup — the tournament was an England affair, hosted across mainland British stadiums, with Wembley as its center. The island's issuing authority has long leveraged British Crown Dependency status to produce commemorative coinage for collectors rather than circulation, and this fiftieth-anniversary gold issue is squarely in that tradition. The .9999 fineness places it among the purer modern bullion-adjacent commemoratives rather than the .917 standard of older British gold coinage.