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50 Pence - Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee
| Issuer | States of Guernsey |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Thickness | 3.2 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the fourth definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, a right-facing diademed and draped bust modelled by Ian Rank-Broadley, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. The Queen wears the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara. The peripheral legend reads ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY, with the date 2012 appearing in the lower right field. The engraver's initials IRB are incuse below the truncation of the neck. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a colour-printed photographic portrait of the young Queen Elizabeth II in full coronation regalia, wearing the Imperial State Crown and holding the royal sceptre, reproduced in monochrome tones after the celebrated official coronation photograph by Pietro Annigoni, set within a circular central field. The surrounding annular border, finished in gold plate, bears the commemorative legend · 1952 · DIAMOND JUBILEE · 2012 · in the upper arc and · FIFTY PENCE · in the lower arc, separated by raised dot stops. |
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Guernsey has issued commemorative 50p pieces in outsized formats since the 1970s, a practice that has produced dozens of collector-targeted strikes with face values bearing no practical relationship to their production costs. This Diamond Jubilee piece was part of a wave of royal anniversary issues flooding the market in 2012, with multiple Channel Island jurisdictions — Jersey, Alderney, and Guernsey among them — each releasing their own competing series simultaneously.
Gold plating on copper-nickel blanks of this weight is notoriously prone to wear at the high points of the plating layer, regardless of handling — a known limitation of the process rather than a grading variable.