THE 2000 QUEEN MOTHER SILVER CENTENARY 5-Pound Fine Proof Silver COIN. MINT CONDITION, including the clear protective coin case, the dark blue velvet clamshell case, the Certificate of Authenticity, the small 14-page booklet about The Queen Mother, and the outer cardboard sleeve. All in excellent condition.
A beautifully struck 5-pound British Royalty Coin made in Pure Silver, to celebrate the Queen Mother's 100 Birthday. Reverse is the image of Queen Mother facing left, legend around and signature. Obverse is the Fourth crowned portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II, facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, legend around.
For his superb portrait of the Queen Mother, Ian Rank Broadley worked from photographs which the Queen Mother graciously allowed to be taken for this very special purpose. To symbolise The Queen Mothers century, he has included cheering crowds in the background, those in Victorian dress rejoicing at her birth and those in modern dress celebrating her hundredth year. Below the portrait appears a representation of her signature.
DID YOU KNOW? Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, was Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952. As the wife of King George VI, she was concurrently the last Empress of India until the British Raj was dissolved in August 1947.
Composition: .925 Pure Silver
Weight: 28.28 grams
Diameter: 38.61 millimeters
GC&C Stock #168
