5 Pounds

Obverse description	Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in three-quarter view occupies the right portion of the note, set within an ornate guilloche border with a large decorative numeral '5' scroll to her right. At centre-left, a vignette of the Town Church, St. Peter Port is rendered in fine intaglio engraving, below which the States of Guernsey seal appears in brown. A small vignette of a boat is visible at upper left, with a stylised £5 cipher at lower left.
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Signature(s)	D. P. Trestain Printer: Thomas de la Rue D. M. Clark solid security thread Printer: De la Rue D. M. Clark segmented security thread Printer: De la Rue
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Comments	Guernsey's long-running P#56 series is notable less for its design than for the quiet administrative changes embedded across its production run — three distinct signature and security thread combinations spanning nearly three decades under two treasurers. The shift from solid to segmented security thread under D. M. Clark's tenure marks the most technically significant variant break, as segmented threads with windowed apertures became De La Rue's preferred anti-counterfeiting standard from the mid-1990s onward. Trestain-signed examples from the earlier print run are the scarcest of the three variants by a measurable margin.