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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Battle of the Somme
| Issuer | Guernsey |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Fourth-generation effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, after the portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, depicting the Queen diademed and with elaborately styled hair. The truncation of the bust bears the engraver's initials IRB. The circumferential legend reads ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY, with the date 2016 positioned to the lower right of the field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a scene of five World War I infantry soldiers in full battle kit, advancing across a war-torn landscape evocative of the Western Front, their rifles shouldered and silhouetted against a stylised sky with barbed wire in the foreground. A colour-printed red poppy, symbol of remembrance, is prominently applied at the centre upper field between the commemorative dates 1916 and 2016. The arc legend BATTLE OF THE SOMME curves along the upper periphery, while the denomination FIVE POUNDS is inscribed along the lower field. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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