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10 Pounds - Queen Elizabeth II D-Day 75th Anniversary
| Issuer | Guernsey |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Weight | 155.53 g |
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| Obverse description | Crowned and draped effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, after the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, with the engraver's initials IRB appearing below the truncation. The circumferential legend reads ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY, with the denomination TEN POUNDS and the date 2019 completing the inscription in the lower field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 75th anniversary of Operation Overlord prompted a wave of commemorative issues across British Crown Dependencies, and Guernsey's geographic position made its participation more than ceremonial — the island had been under German occupation since July 1940 and remained so until liberation on 9 May 1945, nearly a full year after the Normandy landings it now commemorates. Guernsey was not liberated by D-Day; it was liberated despite the Allies choosing to bypass the Channel Islands entirely, leaving the garrison to surrender only after Germany's general capitulation.
The 5-ounce format places this squarely in the modern bullion-collectible category that the Royal Mint and its Crown Dependency equivalents leaned into heavily through the late 2010s.