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50 Pence - Elizabeth II Christmas
| Issuer | Government of Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Weight | 8.0 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | HAPPY CHRISTMAS 50 |
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Gibraltar has issued annual Christmas 50 pence pieces since 1988, making this one entry in a long-running series that has become a deliberate collecting program rather than a functional currency exercise. The coins enter circulation legally but are produced with the secondary market firmly in mind.
The KM#1479 reference places this squarely within the prolific Gibraltar commemorative output of the period, when the territory was issuing collector-oriented coinage at a pace that drew some criticism from catalogers for diluting numismatic significance.