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50 Pence - Charles III The Wombles - Orinoco, Colored
| Issuer | States of Guernsey |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Shape | Heptagonal (7-sided) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | Orinoco 50 |
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The Wombles, created by Elisabeth Beresford after she misheard her daughter mispronounce "Wimbledon Common" on a Boxing Day walk in 1968, became a BBC stop-motion fixture in the early 1970s and have retained enough cultural currency to sustain multiple licensing revivals. Orinoco — habitually lazy, perpetually hungry — was among the most popular characters in the original run. Guernsey has issued commemorative fifty pence pieces under licensing arrangements for decades, a revenue stream that relies entirely on collector demand rather than circulation.