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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II D-Day
| Issuer | States of Alderney |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the George IV State Diadem and pearl drop earrings with a pearl necklace, as sculpted by Raphael David Maklouf. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left periphery and ALDERNEY along the right periphery, with the date 2004 prominently displayed in the lower field. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a polished field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Alderney occupies a peculiar place in D-Day history: the only British territory to have been fully evacuated before German occupation in 1940, it sat under Nazi control for the entire duration of the war and was among the last places liberated in May 1945 — weeks after Germany's formal surrender. The island itself played no operational role in the June 1944 landings, which gives its commemorative issues on the subject an odd remove from the events they mark.
KM#38 is one of several D-Day commemoratives struck for Alderney by the Royal Mint in the sixtieth anniversary year.