50 Pence - Charles III The Wombles - Tobermory

The Wombles, created by Elisabeth Beresford in 1968 after she misheard her daughter mispronounce "Wimbledon Common," became a fixture of British children's television through the BBC series that ran from 1973 to 1975. Tobermory — the inventive, technically-minded Womble who built and repaired contraptions from found objects — takes his name from the Scottish island town on Mull.

Guernsey has no organic connection to the franchise; the island simply holds a licensing arrangement that makes it a prolific issuer of British cultural commemoratives. This is the fourth decade in which Wombles-themed coinage has appeared in some form on the UK collector market.