This piece belongs to Jersey's 2024 Kings and Queens circulation series, which cycles royal portraits across denominations to mark the accession of Charles III. Richard II is a pointed choice for a circulating coin — he was deposed in 1399 by Henry Bolingbroke, died in captivity at Pontefract Castle, and became the only medieval English king to be forcibly removed from the throne while still alive, a precedent that haunted the monarchy for the next century.
This piece belongs to Jersey's 2024 Kings and Queens circulation series, which cycles royal portraits across denominations to mark the accession of Charles III. Richard II is a pointed choice for a circulating coin — he was deposed in 1399 by Henry Bolingbroke, died in captivity at Pontefract Castle, and became the only medieval English king to be forcibly removed from the throne while still alive, a precedent that haunted the monarchy for the next century.