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Crown - Edward VIII
| Issuer | Zimbabwe › Southern Rhodesia (1932-1955) |
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| Year | 1984 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, draped bust of Edward VIII in left-facing profile, rendered with finely detailed hair and a truncated shoulder. The effigy occupies the majority of the field in high relief. The circumferential legend reads EDWARD · VIII · KING · & · EMPEROR, arranged along the inner edge of a continuous beaded border that runs the full circumference of the coin. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Zimbabwe issued this crown in 1984 as part of a series commemorating Edward VIII, the British king who abdicated in December 1936 after less than a year on the throne — never having been crowned. Southern Rhodesia, as a self-governing colony in 1936, had already prepared coinage dies bearing his portrait before the abdication rendered them obsolete. The 1984 issue revisits that unfinished numismatic chapter nearly five decades later.