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50 Pence - Elizabeth II Royal Family, silver, colored
| Issuer | Falkland Islands |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Third-generation effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the George IV State Diadem, with curled hair and a pearl necklace visible at the truncation, as modelled by Raphael David Maklouf. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. The circumferential legend reads QUEEN ELIZABETH II · 2002 · FALKLAND ISLANDS, with the denomination 50 PENCE inscribed along the lower rim, separated by raised dots. |
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| Mintage | 2002 - Proof |
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Issued to mark Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee, this piece belongs to a series depicting members of the royal family — a genre that became a reliable revenue stream for Falkland Islands currency authorities in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when commemorative coin programs were aggressively marketed to overseas collectors rather than to islanders with any practical need for them. The applied color was added post-strike, a technique that divides collectors sharply on legitimacy.