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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Napoleon
| Issuer | Government of Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Reverse description | Three-quarter facing portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte in military uniform, adorned with epaulettes and a prominent breast decoration, set within a beaded inner border. Flanking the central figure are two symmetrical laurel branches extending from the lower field. The commemorative dates 1805 and 2005 flank the inscription TRAFALGAR along the upper arc, referencing the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar. The denomination FIVE POUNDS is inscribed in bold letters along the lower exergue within a rope-style border. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1805 TRAFALGAR 2005 FIVE POUNDS |
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Issued to mark the bicentenary of Trafalgar, this coin arrives freighted with obvious political irony — Gibraltar, a British territory seized in 1704 and never relinquished despite centuries of Spanish pressure, commemorating the battle that decisively ended Napoleon's ambitions for an Atlantic naval supremacy that might have changed that calculus entirely. Had Villeneuve's combined fleet succeeded at Trafalgar, a French-dominated Mediterranean could plausibly have made Britain's hold on the Rock untenable.
Gibraltar has been a prolific issuer of commemorative crown-sized pieces since the 1970s, contracting production through the Pobjoy Mint.