1980 GIBRALTAR UK Queen Mother Elizabeth II Rock Silver Proof Crown Coin i89915

Description

Item:
i89915
Authentic Coin of:
Gibraltar under Elizabeth II - Queen: 6 February 1952 - present
80th anniversary of the birth of the Queen Mother
1980 Proof
Silver Crown 38mm (
28.15
grams) 0.925 Silver (0.841 oz. ASW)
Reference: KM# 11a | Engraver: Arnold Machin, Philip Nathan
GIBRALTAR ELIZABETH II · 1980 ·, Queen Elizabeth II facing right.
80TH BIRTHDAY OF H.M.QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER · ONE CROWN ·, Portrait of Queen Mother facing left, rock of Gibraltar and Strait of Gibraltar in background.
You are bidding on the exact item pictured,  provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of  Authenticity.
Elizabeth  II
(Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926)  is, and has been since her accession in 1952, Queen of the United Kingdom,  Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and
Head of the Commonwealth
. She is also Queen of  12 countries that have become independent since her accession: Jamaica,  Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint  Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint  Kitts and Nevis.
Elizabeth was born in London to the Duke and Duchess of York, later King
George VI
and
Queen Elizabeth
, and was the elder of their two  daughters. She was educated privately at home. Her father acceded to the throne  on the
abdication
of his brother
Edward VIII
in 1936, from which time she was  the
heir presumptive
. She began to undertake public  duties during
World War II
, serving in the
Auxiliary Territorial Service
. In 1947, she  married
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
, with whom she  has four children:
Charles
,
Anne
,
Andrew
, and
Edward
.
Elizabeth's many historic visits and meetings include a
state visit to the Republic of Ireland
and  reciprocal visits to and from the Pope. She has seen major constitutional  changes, such as
devolution
in the United Kingdom, Canadian
patriation
, and the
decolonisation of Africa
. She has also reigned  through various wars and conflicts involving many of
her realms
. She is the world's oldest reigning  monarch as well as Britain's
longest-lived
. In 2015, she surpassed the reign  of her great-great-grandmother,
Queen Victoria
, to become the
longest-reigning British monarch
and the
longest-reigning queen regnant
in world  history.
Times of personal significance have included the births and marriages of her  children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, her
coronation in 1953
, and the celebration of  milestones such as her
Silver
,
Golden
and
Diamond
Jubilees in 1977, 2002, and 2012,  respectively. Moments of sadness for her include the death of her father, aged  56; the assassination of Prince Philip's uncle,
Lord Mountbatten
; the breakdown of her  children's marriages in 1992 (her
annus horribilis
); the death in 1997 of her  son's former wife,
Diana, Princess of Wales
; and the deaths of her  mother and
sister
in 2002. Elizabeth has occasionally  faced
republican
sentiments and severe press  criticism of the
royal family
, but support for the monarchy and  her personal popularity remain high.
Gibraltar
is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.  It has an area of 6.7 km
2
(2.6 sq mi) and is bordered to the north by Spain. The landscape is dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar at the foot of which is a densely populated town area, home to over 32,000 people, primarily Gibraltarians.
In 1704, Anglo-Dutch forces captured Gibraltar from Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession on behalf of the Habsburg claim to the Spanish throne. The territory was ceded to Great Britain in perpetuity under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. During World War II it was an important base for the Royal Navy as it controlled the entrance and exit to the Mediterranean Sea, the Strait of Gibraltar, which is only 14.3 km (8.9 mi) wide at this naval choke point. It remains strategically important, with half the world's seaborne trade passing through the strait.  Today Gibraltar's economy is based largely on tourism, online gambling, financial services and cargo ship refuelling.
The sovereignty of Gibraltar is a point of contention in Anglo-Spanish relations because Spain asserts a claim to the territory.  Gibraltarians rejected proposals for Spanish sovereignty in a 1967 referendum and, in a 2002 referendum, the idea of shared sovereignty was also rejected.
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