5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Battle of Alma 1854

The Battle of Alma, fought on 20 September 1854, was the first major engagement of the Crimean War — a Franco-British-Ottoman force driving Russian troops from heights above the Alma River in what became an unexpectedly bloody opening to a war that neither side had properly planned for. British commanders were so unprepared that officers brought their wives and civilian observers along on ships, treating the early campaign as something closer to a military excursion. The allied victory opened the road to Sevastopol, though the siege that followed would grind on for nearly a year.

Jersey's connection to this commemorative is administrative rather than historical — the island issues coins under Crown dependency status, making it a common vehicle for British-themed commemoratives with limited direct local relevance.