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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Queen's titles
| Issuer | Pobjoy Mint |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a right-facing draped bust of Queen Elizabeth II, diademed and wearing a drop earring and pearl necklace, engraved by Ian Rank-Broadley. The effigy is rendered in fine relief with detailed hair and costume treatment, centered within a beaded inner border. The legend HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II curves along the upper periphery, with the territorial abbreviation TDC positioned to the lower right, and the date 2008 appearing in the lower field beneath the portrait. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Pobjoy Mint, based in Tadworth, Surrey, has operated as a private mint producing coins for dependent territories and smaller nations since 1965. This piece was likely struck for one of the several island territories for which Pobjoy held long-running coining contracts — the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, and various British Overseas Territories among them, though KM# 107 attribution without a specified issuing territory leaves the exact jurisdiction ambiguous. The "Queen's titles" theme places it among a cluster of issues produced around the time of broader Commonwealth discussions about standardizing — or finally reconciling — the varying forms of Elizabeth II's royal style across different realms.