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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II 2020 Remembrance Day, Gold Proof
| Issuer | States of Alderney |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | Central design featuring a hand-colored red poppy in full bloom, its vivid crimson petals rendered in applied color against the polished gold field, commemorating Remembrance Day. The denomination £5 appears to the upper left. The full text of Laurence Binyon's 'For the Fallen' ode is inscribed in a circular legend around the central poppy motif, filling the entire reverse field. The combination of the color-enhanced poppy and the surrounding verse creates a striking and emotive commemorative composition. |
| 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.