| Description : The second issue of the five‐part coin series commemorates
the introduction of majority voting and the formation of Malta's first representative government in 1887. The coin,
designed by the Maltese artist Ġanni Bonnici, depicts cheering people in front of the Governor's Palace in
Valletta, completed in 1575. At the top is a semicircle depicting "MALTA ‐ Majority representation 1887", (Malta ‐
Majority representation 1887), below the year of issue "2012". The coin was minted without a mint mark by the Royal Dutch
Mint Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt in Utrecht; specimens in commemorative coin sets bear their mint mark, a Hermes
staff, between the 5 and 6 o'clock star. |