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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Santa Maria, Silver Proof

Issuer States of Guernsey
Year 2009
Type Non-circulating coin
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Obverse script Latin
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The Santa Maria series of commemoratives issued by Guernsey around this period capitalized on ongoing international interest in Columbian exploration anniversaries, though by 2009 the 1992 quincentenary momentum had long since faded. Guernsey, as a Crown Dependency, operates its own currency authority and issues collector coins largely through the trade wholesale market — many such pieces were struck at the Pobjoy Mint or similar contract facilities and sold directly into collector sets rather than seeing any meaningful circulation.

KM# 200 belongs to a crowded field of matching-spec silver proofs from small jurisdictions during this era, distinguished primarily by subject matter rather than numismatic circumstance.

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