5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Queen Elizabeth I

Tristan da Cunha, a British Overseas Territory so remote that its entire population was evacuated to England in 1961 following a volcanic eruption, issues coins primarily for the collector market — the island's roughly 250 permanent residents have little use for commemorative five-pound pieces. This 2008 issue marking Elizabeth I sits within a long series of topical British-history crowns produced for the territory by the Pobjoy Mint.

Elizabeth I never authorized a coin of this denomination in her own reign's currency — the largest regular silver issue of her era was the crown of five shillings.