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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II The Queen Mother's 90th Birthday
| Issuer | Falkland Islands |
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| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Third-generation effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the George IV State Diadem and a pearl drop earring, with a pearl necklace visible at the truncation, as modelled by Raphael David Maklouf. The legend ELIZABETH II · DEI · GRATIA · REGINA · F · D · arcs around the upper periphery within a beaded border, with FIVE POUNDS inscribed along the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II · DEI · GRATIA · REGINA · F · D · FIVE POUNDS |
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Struck to mark Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's 90th birthday in August 1990, this issue belongs to a wave of commemoratives that flooded Commonwealth mints in the late 1980s and early 1990s as peripheral territories discovered crown-sized silver pieces as a revenue stream. The Falklands' participation carried particular political weight — the islands had been defended at significant cost only eight years earlier, and the Royal Family's symbolic value to the territory remained acutely felt in Port Stanley.
The .925 specification and 28.28g weight place this squarely in the poured-to-a-formula commemorative mold of the period, struck by Pobjoy Mint on behalf of the islands.