2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Liberation

Issued to mark the 50th anniversary of Liberation Day — May 9, 1945, when British forces arrived to end the German occupation of Jersey that had begun in July 1940. Jersey was the most heavily fortified territory the Germans held in the West, and the occupation left deep scars: forced labor, deportations, and near-starvation by the final winter. The anniversary carries a weight in the Channel Islands that no mainland British commemoration quite matches.