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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II 2020 Remembrance Day, Gold Proof
| Issuer | States of Alderney |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem, with a drop earring and necklace visible, after the portrait by Jody Clark. The legend ELIZABETH · II · DEI · GRA REGINA · is inscribed along the upper periphery, with ALDERNEY C. I. continuing along the lower right. The date 2020 appears in the lower exergual area. The portrait is rendered with fine detail against a mirror-polished proof field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alderney's position in the Channel Islands gives it a peculiar authority to issue commemorative coinage under Crown dependency arrangements, despite having a population of roughly 2,000. The island itself was entirely evacuated in June 1940 and occupied by German forces until liberation in May 1945 — one of the only British-administered territories to experience full wartime occupation. That history lends Remembrance issues from Alderney a specificity most Commonwealth commemoratives lack.