Issued to mark the 95th birthday of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, this piedfort was struck by the Pobjoy Mint under license from the States of Alderney — one of the smaller Channel Island jurisdictions, which has leaned heavily on commemorative coinage as a revenue mechanism since the 1990s. Alderney's tiny population and absence of meaningful circulating coinage makes its collector issues essentially fiscal instruments from the outset.
A piedfort strikes the same dies twice the standard planchet thickness, a technique revived in modern commemorative minting largely by the Royal Mint in 1982 before spreading to smaller issuers.
Issued to mark the 95th birthday of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, this piedfort was struck by the Pobjoy Mint under license from the States of Alderney — one of the smaller Channel Island jurisdictions, which has leaned heavily on commemorative coinage as a revenue mechanism since the 1990s. Alderney's tiny population and absence of meaningful circulating coinage makes its collector issues essentially fiscal instruments from the outset.
A piedfort strikes the same dies twice the standard planchet thickness, a technique revived in modern commemorative minting largely by the Royal Mint in 1982 before spreading to smaller issuers.