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50 Pence - Elizabeth II USS Winston Churchill; Silver proof issue

Features

Issuer Falkland Islands (British Overseas Territories)
Queen Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type Non-circulating coins
Year 1999
Value 50 Pence
0.50 FKP = USD 0.67
Currency Pound (decimalized, 1971-date)
Composition Silver (.925)
Weight 28.28 g
Diameter 38.61 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
68017
References KM# 66a
Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).
, Schön# 76a
Battenberg Gietl Verlag (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (4 volumes).

Commemorative issue

Launch of USS Winston Churchill

Obverse

Crowned bust right

Script: Latin

Lettering:
QUEEN ELIZABETH II · FALKLAND ISLANDS
RDM
· 50 PENCE ·

Engraver: Raphael David Maklouf

Reverse

Churchill in full regalia of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports,
date below ship at left

Script: Latin

Lettering:
WINSTON CHURCHILL 1874-1965
1999

Edge

Reeded

Comments

 

Image is of Winston S. Churchill, at the ceremony for his installation as Lord Warden of the  Cinque Ports at Dover Castle (Dover, Kent, England).  His full regalia is a version of the Royal Navy Full Dress.  Photograph taken on 14 August 1946

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
1999  2 145 $ 65 Proof

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Actual silver weight: 0.841 oz
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