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5 Pounds - Charles III VE Day 80th Anniversary, Gold Proof
| Issuer | States of Jersey |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 2025 - Proof - 80 |
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Jersey's commemorative gold program operates under a Royal Mail-adjacent logic: limited mintages sold directly to collectors, never circulated, always tied to a Crown occasion. The 80th anniversary of VE Day lands on 8 May 2025, marking eight decades since Churchill's broadcast from Downing Street confirmed the German instrument of surrender had been signed at Reims the previous day — a date the public didn't learn until the announcement itself.
Jersey was among the last Channel Islands liberated; German forces there did not formally surrender until 9 May 1945, a day after the official European ceasefire.