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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Spitfire
| Issuer | Government of Saint Helena and Ascension |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Saint Helena and Ascension issued this piece as part of a wave of commemorative crown-sized coins contracted through the Pobjoy Mint during the mid-2000s, a period when several British Overseas Territories leaned heavily on licensed commemoratives as a revenue stream rather than circulating coinage. The Spitfire theme tied loosely to the broader 2008 commemorative market around the Battle of Britain anniversary cycle, though the 70th anniversary proper fell in 2010.
KM# 105 sees relatively thin secondary market activity — collector interest in Saint Helena commemoratives of this period tends to cluster around the Napoleon exile issues rather than aviation subjects.