Malta

Commemorative coin

2012

Majority Representation 1887

(Part of the National series " Constitutional History ")

Official Journal of the European Union

The design was created by the Maltese artist Gianni Bonnici and it shows a jubilant crowd with the Governor’s Palace, in Valletta, depicted in the background. At the top of the inner ring, in a semicircle, the inscription ‘MALTA — Majority representation 1887’. At the bottom the year ‘2012’. The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

Additional information

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, and shows jubilant people in front of the Governor's Palace in Valletta, completed in 1575.

Edge lettering

Designer