| Description : The commemorative coin commemorating the 50th anniversary
of independence from Britain features the upper part of a bronze statue from the Malta Indipendenti Monument in
Floriana: a woman carrying the flag of Malta, which contains the St George's Cross ‐ symbol of St George the
Saint and martyr and of the Crusades ‐ awarded in 1942 to the entire population of Malta for their bravery during the
Italian and German air raids in the Second World War. The left half of the flag is represented by perspective hatching with
the tincture red, following the heraldic rules of tingling. The 8.5 m towering sculpture was created in 1989 by
Ġanni Bonnici (1932‐2019), who is also the designer of the coin series on Malta's constitutional history. In a
semicircle on the upper right hand side, the issuing country and occasion "MALTA ‐ Independence 1964" can be read,
below is the year of issue "2014". The coin was minted without a mint mark by the Royal Dutch Mint Koninklijke
Nederlandse Munt in Utrecht; specimens contained in commemorative coin sets bear their mint mark, a Hermes staff,
between the 5 and 6 o'clock star. |
