The Diamond Wedding commemorative was issued in 2007 marking sixty years since the November 1947 marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey — a ceremony deliberately kept modest by the post-war austerity government, which initially denied the event extra clothing ration coupons before public outcry forced a reversal. Guernsey, as a Crown Dependency, issues its own coinage independently of the Royal Mint but remains outside the United Kingdom proper.
KM#208a designates the silver variant; a base-metal version was struck concurrently for general circulation.
The Diamond Wedding commemorative was issued in 2007 marking sixty years since the November 1947 marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey — a ceremony deliberately kept modest by the post-war austerity government, which initially denied the event extra clothing ration coupons before public outcry forced a reversal. Guernsey, as a Crown Dependency, issues its own coinage independently of the Royal Mint but remains outside the United Kingdom proper.
KM#208a designates the silver variant; a base-metal version was struck concurrently for general circulation.