2 Pounds - Charles III Samuel Pepys - The Great Plague

Samuel Pepys documented the 1665 plague outbreak in London with clinical detachment — recording death tolls, fleeing acquaintances, and the eerie silence of emptying streets while remaining in the city longer than most of his social class dared. His diary entries from that summer remain the most cited eyewitness account of an epidemic that killed roughly a quarter of London's population in under eighteen months. Jersey, largely insulated from the worst of it, has nonetheless claimed the commemorative ground here.