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KM#1006.1
Great Britain, 5 pounds
Copper-Nickel, 38.61 mm., 28.28 g.
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The end of the second millennium AD.
Obverse: Fourth crowned portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara.
Reverse: The focal point of the design bears a representation of the British Isles with a pair of clock hands, pivoted on Greenwich and set at the crucial twelve o'clock position, with the important millennium dates of 1999 and 2000 incorporated either side.
Edge: Plain with lettering. Taken from Shakespeare's The Tempest and recognising the dawn of the new millennium as an opportunity to look into the future.
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