Alderney's Remembrance issues occupy a specific niche in the British Crown Dependency commemorative market — produced by the Pobjoy Mint under license and distributed primarily through collector channels rather than any form of general circulation. The island itself has particular reason to mark the armistice: Alderney was the only British territory whose entire civilian population was evacuated during the German occupation of 1940, and it housed the only Nazi concentration camps on British soil.
Alderney's Remembrance issues occupy a specific niche in the British Crown Dependency commemorative market — produced by the Pobjoy Mint under license and distributed primarily through collector channels rather than any form of general circulation. The island itself has particular reason to mark the armistice: Alderney was the only British territory whose entire civilian population was evacuated during the German occupation of 1940, and it housed the only Nazi concentration camps on British soil.