10 Pence - Charles III Queen Mary I

This piece belongs to Jersey's 2024 monarchs series, which pairs Charles III's effigy with a succession of English and British rulers on the reverse — a format Jersey has deployed across several commemorative circulation issues. Mary I, who reigned 1553–1558, oversaw the restoration of papal authority in England and the burning of nearly 300 Protestant dissenters, earning her epithet from John Foxe's Acts and Monuments published just years after her death. Jersey, as a Crown dependency rather than part of the United Kingdom, issues its own coinage independently of the Royal Mint.