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50 Pence - Elizabeth II Around the World in 80 Days - Yokohama
| Issuer | Guernsey |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse description | Fourth definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, as sculpted by Ian Rank-Broadley, facing right with a tiara and curled hair, occupying the centre of the heptagonal flan. The peripheral legend reads ELIZABETH II to the upper left and BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY to the upper right, with FIFTY PENCE along the lower left and the date 2022 along the lower base, each separated by raised dots. The engraver's initials IRB appear beneath the truncation of the neck. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY IRB FIFTY PENCE · 2022 · |
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One of a series of twelve 50p pieces issued by Guernsey commemorating Jules Verne's 1872 novel, this piece marks Yokohama as Phileas Fogg's penultimate major stop before San Francisco. Verne never visited Japan himself; his depiction drew heavily on accounts by French naval officers and the 1867 Paris Exposition, where Japanese artifacts were a sensation. The Yokohama of the novel was already a functioning treaty port, opened to foreign trade following Commodore Perry's 1853–54 pressure on the Tokugawa shogunate.
KM#450.1 distinguishes a minor variant within the issue.