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1 Crown - Elizabeth II Postage Stamp, Silver
| Issuer | Gibraltar |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 1990 - Proof - 30,000 |
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Gibraltar's 1990 crown program coincided with the 150th anniversary of the Penny Black, the world's first adhesive postage stamp, issued by Britain in May 1840. The Penny Black's brief run — replaced after less than a year by the Penny Red, whose red ink made cancellation marks harder to see — makes it one of the most storied philatelic objects in existence, and Gibraltar leveraged that anniversary heavily across a series of collector issues.
KM#49a is the sterling silver variant of a base metal type, produced specifically for the proof and collector market rather than circulation.