25 Pounds - Elizabeth II Duke of Wellington

Issued in the bicentenary year of Wellington's first major independent command, the 1802 appointment that set his career on its definitive trajectory before the Deccan campaigns. Guernsey's gold commemorative program in this period leaned heavily on British military figures, a commercially driven niche the island's treasury exploited aggressively through the late 1990s and early 2000s. The .917 fineness matches traditional sovereign alloy — a deliberate choice to anchor the piece within a familiar collecting framework rather than issue at a purer standard.