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50 Pence - Elizabeth II Queen Mother, Piedfort
| Issuer | Saint Helena |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 50 Pence |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicting Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother standing to the right, elegantly dressed and holding a bouquet of flowers, with a racehorse shown in close-up profile occupying the left portion of the field and a mounted jockey visible in the background. The composition celebrates her lifelong association with horse racing. The curved legend QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER 1995 arcs around the upper periphery, while the denomination · 50 PENCE · appears along the lower periphery, all in raised Latin lettering within a beaded inner border. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Queen Mother's 95th birthday in 1995 prompted a wave of commemorative issues across British territories, Saint Helena among them. Piedfort coins — struck at twice the standard planchet thickness — have been a Royal Mint specialty since their modern revival in 1982, and colonial dependencies adopted the format for prestige issues throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Saint Helena's small population and limited collector base kept mintages for these issues extremely low, though precise figures for this piece remain poorly documented in the standard references.