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50 Pence - Elizabeth II Traditional Christmas - Snowman
| Issuer | Guernsey |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Shape | Equilateral curve heptagon (7-sided) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, diademed and wearing drop earrings, rendered in a finely detailed portrait style with elaborately coiled hair. The legend ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY arcs around the upper periphery, while the date 2022 appears at the lower right. The engraver's initials JRB are incuse beneath the truncation of the bust. |
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| Reverse description | A detailed winter scene occupies the field, centred on a rotund snowman wearing a knitted hat and a fringed scarf, holding a broom in his right hand. A snow-laden Christmas tree stands to the left, with a wooden garden fence extending across both sides of the composition, and scattered snowflakes dotting the background field. The denomination legend FIFTY PENCE arcs boldly across the upper portion of the design in raised lettering. |
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Guernsey has issued commemorative 50 pence pieces under royal licence since the early 1970s, maintaining the legal right to produce its own coinage as a Crown dependency outside the United Kingdom. The Snowman design references Raymond Briggs' 1978 wordless picture book and its 1982 Channel 4 animated adaptation, which has aired almost every Christmas in Britain since — an unusual case of a privately produced children's film becoming embedded enough in national culture to earn a place on circulating-denomination coinage.