1/2 Crown - Elizabeth II Winston Churchill

Issued fifty-five years after Churchill's death, this Gibraltar piece falls within a long tradition of the territory commemorating British statesmen — a politically pointed habit for a place whose population voted 99.6% to remain British in the 1967 sovereignty referendum. Churchill himself had a complicated relationship with Gibraltar's strategic role, relying heavily on it during the North Africa campaigns while simultaneously frustrating the Colonial Office over wartime resource allocation to the garrison.