5 Pounds - Elizabeth II 75th anniversary of D-day, Selective Gold Plating

Guernsey occupies a peculiar position in D-Day history: the Channel Islands were the only British territory occupied by German forces during the Second World War, and Guernsey itself was not liberated until May 9, 1945 — nearly a full year after the Normandy landings that this coin commemorates. The islanders listened to the Allied invasion on contraband radios, aware that their own freedom was not yet at hand.