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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Aston Martin DB5
| Issuer | States of Alderney |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Technique | Proof |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing fourth-portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank-Broadley, depicted with a diadem and wearing a necklace. The engraver's initials IRB appear truncated below the neck. The legend ALDERNEY arcs along the lower left rim and FIVE POUNDS along the upper left, while ELIZABETH II arcs along the upper right rim. The date 2009 appears at the lower right field, all set against a polished proof field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Alderney has long operated as a vehicle for commemorative issues that wouldn't fit within mainstream British coinage programs, and this piece is a straightforward product of that arrangement — licensed through the Royal Mint's broader Crown Dependencies framework but with no connection to Alderney's own monetary or economic history. The DB5's association with James Bond dates specifically to Goldfinger (1964), though the car had already entered production the previous year as a road vehicle entirely unrelated to the franchise.
Aston Martin delivered just 1,059 DB5s before production ceased in 1965.