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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II House of Plantagenet II
| Issuer | Cayman Islands |
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| Year | 1979-1980 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | Four conjoined portrait busts of the last monarchs of the House of Plantagenet arranged in a circular composition within a beaded inner circle, each identified by a legend around the periphery giving their name and regnal dates. The denomination '50 DOLLARS' is inscribed in two lines at the center of the design. The four kings depicted are Edward I (1272–1307), Edward II (1307–1327), Edward III (1327–1377), and Richard II (1377–1399), their names and dates distributed symmetrically around the field in Latin script. |
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| Mintage | 1979 CHI - Proof - 1980 - White Towers mintmark, proof - 1980 CHI - Proof - 11,000 |
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The House of Plantagenet series was part of a broader wave of commemorative gold issues produced by British territories in the late 1970s, capitalizing on collector demand that spiked after gold ownership was fully re-legalized in the United States in 1975. The Cayman Islands, with no meaningful domestic coin circulation to speak of, issued these almost exclusively for the international numismatic market.
The .500 fineness is worth noting — half gold, half alloy — a deliberate cost-control decision that kept face value nominally credible while reducing precious metal content for a territory whose "dollars" were never intended to pass through a cash register.