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25 Pounds - Elizabeth II Winston Churchill
| Issuer | Alderney |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Diameter | 22 mm |
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| Reverse description | Facing three-quarter portrait of Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, depicted wearing his iconic homburg hat, rendered in high relief against a plain field. The legend WINSTON · SPENCER · CHURCHILL · is inscribed in a arc above the portrait, with the birth year 1874 to the lower left and the death year 1965 to the lower right. The denomination 25 POUNDS appears along the lower portion of the field, commemorating Churchill's life from 1874 to 1965. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the 125th anniversary of Churchill's birth, this Alderney piece carries particular weight given the island's history — Alderney was entirely evacuated in June 1940 and subsequently occupied by German forces for nearly five years, making it the only British territory to suffer that fate during the war Churchill led. The island's civilian population didn't fully return until 1945.