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1 Sovereign - Charles III D-Day, Gold
| Issuer | Alderney |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | D-DAY 1944-2024 80 YEARS SOVEREIGN |
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Alderney was the only British territory occupied by German forces during World War II, a fact that gives this island's D-Day commemoratives a weight that purely metropolitan British issues cannot claim. Roughly 2,000 Alderney civilians were evacuated before the occupation in June 1940; those who remained, or were later deported, experienced the war at its most direct. The island itself sits within sight of the Normandy coast.
Alderney's coinage rights derive from a 1993 arrangement — its pieces are legal tender but struck to commemorative rather than circulation standards.