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50 Pence - Elizabeth II Sovereign of the United Kingdom, Gold Plated
| Issuer | Guernsey |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 50 Pence |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, as sculpted by Ian Rank-Broadley. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a plain field, with the engraver's initials IRB appearing below the truncation. The peripheral legend reads ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY, with the date 2022 at the lower right. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Guernsey has no independent monetary authority in the conventional sense — it issues coins under Crown dependency status, with the UK Treasury's approval, through licensing arrangements that have made the island a prolific source of commemorative issues since the 1970s. This gold-plated 50 pence is one of dozens of collector pieces the Bailiwick has released under Elizabeth II's name, a program that accelerated sharply in her final decades as the commemorative coin market expanded. She died in September 2022, making late-dated issues from that year transitional curiosities in the series.