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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II Sovereign Queens of England
| Issuer | Cayman Islands |
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| Year | 1975-1977 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust of Queen Elizabeth II, as modelled by Arnold Machin, occupies the central field. The effigy depicts the Queen wearing a tiara and with her hair elegantly dressed, rendered in high relief against a deeply mirrored proof field. The legend CAYMAN ISLANDS arcs along the left periphery and ELIZABETH II along the right, both in raised Latin characters. The date 1976 appears in the lower exergual area beneath the portrait. |
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| Reverse description | Five circular medallions arranged in a cruciform pattern dominate the reverse, each containing a portrait bust of a sovereign queen of England: Mary I (top centre), Elizabeth I (centre right), Mary II (lower right), Anne (lower left), and Victoria (centre left). The denomination 50 DOLLARS is inscribed centrally between the medallions. The outer border carries the names and regnal dates of each queen — VICTORIA·1837·1901, MARY·I·1553·1558, ELIZABETH·I·1558·1603, ANNE·1702·1714, and MARY·II·1688·1694 — separated by floral and heraldic ornaments. The entire composition is framed by an elaborate decorative border of beading and foliate motifs, with small armorial devices positioned between the legends. |
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The "Sovereign Queens of England" series was issued by the Cayman Islands government across three years, each release featuring a different medieval or early modern English queen regnant — a category thin enough historically that the designers had to work to fill the set. The Cayman Islands, as a British Crown dependency, had only gained the right to issue its own coinage in 1972, and these large-format silver pieces were aimed squarely at the collector market rather than circulation.
At 64.8 grams of sterling silver, none of these ever saw a cash register.