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5 Pounds - Queen Elizabeth II 75th Birthday
| Issuer | States of Guernsey |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | A three-quarter facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing a crown and formal attire, encircled by an ornate wreath of stylised floral and foliate scrollwork. The commemorative legend THE 75th BIRTHDAY OF H.M. QUEEN ELIZABETH II arcs around the upper portion of the field, while the denomination FIVE POUNDS appears in raised lettering along the lower edge within the wreath. |
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| Mintage | 2001 - - 14,000 |
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Guernsey has issued commemorative five-pound pieces with some regularity since the 1970s, and the market for them has always been thin. The 75th birthday series for Elizabeth II in 2001 was produced across multiple Commonwealth and Crown Dependency jurisdictions simultaneously, diluting collector interest across a raft of near-identical issues from Guernsey, Jersey, and Gibraltar alike.
KM#108 circulated only nominally — copper-nickel crown-sized pieces of this type rarely saw a shop till.