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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Crimean War; Gold Proof
| Issuer | States of Jersey |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds 5 JEP = RSD 674 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2004 - Proof - 500 |
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Issued to mark the 150th anniversary of the Crimean War, this piece commemorates a conflict that claimed roughly 20,000 British lives — more from cholera and dysentery than from Russian fire. Jersey's connection to the war is peripheral at best, which places this squarely in the category of commemorative issues produced by small jurisdictions licensing their minting authority to bullion and collector markets rather than marking any local historical tie.
The 1854–56 war did produce one lasting institutional consequence: public outrage over soldier welfare, amplified by William Howard Russell's dispatches in The Times, directly accelerated the professionalization of military nursing under Florence Nightingale at Scutari.