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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Morgan Plus Four
| Issuer | Alderney |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Ian Rank-Broadley Reverse: Robert Elderton |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicting a Morgan Plus Four open-top sports car rendered in fine relief, facing left in three-quarter view, with two standing figures behind the vehicle and a rural building with a chimney visible in the background. The curved legend MORGAN PLUS FOUR arches above the principal motif, while the production date range 1951 - 1969 appears in the lower exergue. The composition was engraved by Robert Elderton. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alderney's commemorative program has long served as a vehicle for British cultural subjects that fall outside the Royal Mint's remit, and this piece marking the Morgan Plus Four fits that pattern. The Morgan Motor Company, founded in 1909 in Malvern Link, Worcestershire, is one of the few remaining hand-built car manufacturers in the world — and the Plus Four, introduced in 1950, has remained in near-continuous production ever since, making the centenary a legitimate milestone for the marque if not always for the coinage.
Morgan's survival through the postwar decades owed something to a waiting list that at times stretched to ten years.