1 Pound - Elizabeth II Remembrance Day, Gold Proof

Alderney sits closest of all the Channel Islands to the Normandy coast — a geographic fact that gave it an outsized role in both World Wars. The island was entirely evacuated in June 1940 and subsequently occupied by German forces, who used it as a heavily fortified garrison. Nearly all its pre-war population were still displaced when liberation came in 1945, returning to a largely stripped and damaged community. That history gives any Remembrance issue from this dependency a specificity that equivalent pieces from mainland mints lack.

The Royal Mint strikes Alderney issues under a licensing arrangement with the island's administration.