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2 Pounds - Elizabeth II Liberation, Silver Piedfort
| Issuer | States of Jersey |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 2 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Third effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by Raphael David Maklouf, depicting the sovereign as a right-facing diademed and draped bust wearing the George IV State Diadem. The portrait is rendered in high relief, as befitting a piedfort striking. The encircling legend reads QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND 1995, positioned along the upper and lower periphery of the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND 1995 |
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Jersey issued this piedfort in 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of liberation from German occupation, which ended on 9 May 1945 — a date still observed as a public holiday on the island. The occupation had lasted nearly five years, during which the island's currency situation grew increasingly chaotic, with locally printed occupation notes and rationed goods replacing normal commerce entirely.
Pieforts of this type were struck at double the standard planchet thickness, a French minting tradition revived by British and Crown Dependency issues in the 1980s primarily for collector series.