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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II 50th Anniversary of Liberation; Piedfort
| Issuer | Guernsey |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 2 Pounds 2 GGP = RSD 267 |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the King George IV State Diadem, as designed for Guernsey coinage. The Bailiwick of Guernsey coat of arms appears to the left of the portrait in the field. The obverse legend encircles the effigy. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts Allied soldiers landing on a Normandy beach, with a military transport vessel in the background displaying an open bow ramp and the Union Jack. The design commemorates the Liberation of Guernsey on 9 May 1945. The denomination appears in the lower field, with the commemorative legend and date range distributed around the design. |
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The 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the Channel Islands on 9 May 1945 prompted a wave of commemorative issues across Guernsey, Jersey, and Alderney. The Channel Islands were the only British territory occupied by German forces during the war — a distinction that gives the Liberation date an intensity on these islands that it carries nowhere else in the British Isles. Guernsey issued piedforts alongside standard strikes, a French minting tradition revived in modern commemorative programs that doubles the coin's thickness using the same dies.