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50 Pence - Elizabeth II Black-browed Albatross
| Issuer | Falkland Islands |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped and crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the George IV State Diadem and a pearl necklace, as modelled by Raphael David Maklouf. The legend QUEEN ELIZABETH II · FALKLAND ISLANDS arcs around the upper periphery, with the denomination · 50 PENCE · inscribed along the lower periphery. The engraver's initials RDM appear incuse on the truncation of the bust. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The black-browed albatross breeds in enormous numbers on the Falklands — particularly on Steeple Jason, home to the largest single colony of any albatross species on earth. This 1997 issue arrived two years after the Falkland Islands Government began more aggressively asserting its fisheries jurisdiction in surrounding waters, a period when longline fishing mortality of black-browed albatrosses was drawing serious international attention and prompting early conservation negotiations between Britain, Argentina, and distant-water fishing nations.