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1 Sovereign - Elizabeth II Dunkirk Evacuation
| Issuer | Alderney |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Diamond Diadem Crown, with a pearl drop earring visible and elaborately styled hair. The portrait, engraved by Joel Iskowitz, is rendered in high relief against a polished proof field. The encircling legend reads ELIZABETH · II · DEI · GRA · REGINA · ALDERNEY · C.I., with the date 2020 positioned in the lower exergue. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alderney sits roughly 50 miles from Dunkirk, close enough that the island's residents could hear the guns during Operation Dynamo in May–June 1940. The evacuation itself ended just weeks before German forces occupied Alderney — the only British territory from which the entire civilian population was evacuated before occupation, a fact that gives this issuer an unusually direct connection to the event being commemorated.