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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Austin Healey Sprite MK 1
| Issuer | States of Alderney |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alderney has issued commemorative coinage under Crown Dependency authority since 1993, largely targeting the collector market with themed series rather than circulating currency. This piece belongs to a run of British motoring issues that Alderney produced in the late 2000s — a commercially driven series with no particular political or historical occasion behind it.
The Austin-Healey Sprite Mk I debuted at the 1958 Geneva Motor Show, designed under Donald Healey with the frog-eye headlamp configuration that became its defining quirk — a cost-cutting measure after the originally intended pop-up lamps proved too expensive to produce.