Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Erwin Rommel
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
|---|---|
| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 5 Dollars |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Half-length portrait of Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel in military uniform, facing right, raising binoculars to his left. To the right of the composition, soldiers are depicted exerting effort to manoeuvre an anti-aircraft gun across the desert terrain, evoking the North African campaign. The design commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein. The upper legend reads 50th ANNIVERSARY OF EL ALAMEIN, with the commemorative dates 1942-1992 and the denomination 5 DOLLARS inscribed in the lower field. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | 50th ANNIVERSARY OF EL ALAMEIN 1942-1992 5 DOLLARS |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Rommel's appearance on a Belizean commemorative requires some explanation: this is one of dozens of "world leader" and military figure issues produced for small Caribbean and Pacific nations in the early 1990s by European coin wholesalers, who licensed the designs and paid the issuing authority a flat fee for the right to strike coins under their sovereign imprimatur. Belize had no particular connection to Rommel or the North African campaign.
The arrangement was entirely commercial — the Central Bank received hard currency, the wholesaler sold coins to European collectors, and the "issuing nation" was largely nominal.