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50 Pence - Charles III St George and the dragon
| Issuer | Ascension Island |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Value | 50 Pence (0.50) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | FIFTY PENCE |
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Ascension Island issues coinage through a formal arrangement with the British Treasury but holds no elected legislature and no permanent indigenous population — its "residents" are entirely contract workers and military personnel. The St George reverse on this piece continues a lineage traceable to Benedetto Pistrucci's 1817 original, still among the most enduring coin designs in British numismatic history, reproduced here under license for a territory that exists primarily as a mid-Atlantic communications and military relay station. The KM# 105 attribution places it within a relatively young Ascension Island series, most of which are collector-targeted issues with negligible circulation.