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| Issuer | Ascension Island |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 50 Pence (0.50) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II . ASCENSION ISLAND . 2021 . FIFTY PENCE |
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Ascension Island, a British Overseas Territory with no permanent civilian population, has issued commemorative coinage primarily as a collector revenue stream since the 1970s — it has no meaningful circulating currency economy of its own. This piece is one of several in a Wind in the Willows series timed to coincide with the book's broad cultural anniversaries, though Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel has no particular connection to the island beyond the issuing authority's nominal jurisdiction.