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50 Pence - Charles III The Wombles - Tobermory, colored
| Issuer | Guernsey |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Obverse description | Uncrowned effigy of King Charles III facing left, rendered in a realistic portrait style by engraver Glyn Davies. The king is depicted as a mature bare-headed bust with natural, lightly styled hair. The peripheral legend arcs around the upper and lower fields, with the date 2023 positioned at the base. The design follows the standard first coinage portrait of Charles III adopted for British Crown Dependencies. |
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| Obverse lettering | CHARLES III • BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY • 2023 • |
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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 staple in the early 1970s and have carried persistent cultural currency in Britain ever since. Tobermory, the inventor and handyman of the group, takes his name from a Scottish island town on the Isle of Mull. This is one of several character issues in Guernsey's 2023 Wombles programme, each struck in colored copper-nickel for the collector market rather than circulation.