The Palace of Holyroodhouse sits at the foot of Edinburgh's Royal Mile and has served as the official Scottish residence of the British monarch since the 16th century — though Jersey, as a Crown Dependency, sits entirely outside the United Kingdom and has no constitutional relationship with Scotland whatsoever. These Royal Residence issues are a Jersey post office franchise exercise, leveraging the new reign to push a collecting series through channels that have little to do with the palaces depicted.
Gold-plated copper-nickel of this specification is sometimes called "gold layered" in the trade to distinguish it from vermeil. The plating thickness on mass-market issues of this type rarely exceeds a few microns.
The Palace of Holyroodhouse sits at the foot of Edinburgh's Royal Mile and has served as the official Scottish residence of the British monarch since the 16th century — though Jersey, as a Crown Dependency, sits entirely outside the United Kingdom and has no constitutional relationship with Scotland whatsoever. These Royal Residence issues are a Jersey post office franchise exercise, leveraging the new reign to push a collecting series through channels that have little to do with the palaces depicted.
Gold-plated copper-nickel of this specification is sometimes called "gold layered" in the trade to distinguish it from vermeil. The plating thickness on mass-market issues of this type rarely exceeds a few microns.