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25 Pounds - Elizabeth II Evening Star
| Issuer | States of Jersey |
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| Year | 2004 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Milled |
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The Evening Star — BR Standard Class 9F No. 92220 — was the last steam locomotive built for British Railways, completed at Swindon Works in March 1960 and named in a ceremony that acknowledged it would never haul the revenue traffic its predecessors had. Steam was already being phased out under the 1955 Modernisation Plan, and 92220 was withdrawn from service in 1965 after barely five years of use. It survives at the National Railway Museum in York.
Jersey's gold commemorative series has leaned heavily on British transport nostalgia since the early 2000s, with the Evening Star among the more defensible subjects given its genuine historical footnote status.