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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II 20th Century Monarchs - Silver
| Issuer | States of Guernsey |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, diademed and wearing a necklace with drop earring, rendered in fine detail after the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley. The engraver's initials IRB appear below the truncation of the bust. The circumferential legend reads ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY, with the date 2000 positioned at the lower right of the field. |
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| Edge | Milled |
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Guernsey's commemorative output in the late 1990s and early 2000s leaned heavily on royal themes, and this piece was issued as part of a broader wave of millennium-adjacent royal commemoratives produced across British Crown Dependencies. The "20th Century Monarchs" framing gave the series commercial appeal, packaging six reigns into a collectible sequence at a moment when the Royal Mint and its competitors were flooding the market with similar crown-sized silver issues.
KM#102a denotes the silver variant, distinguished from a base-metal counterpart struck to the same specification.