5 Pounds - Elizabeth II D-Day

Jersey issued this piece for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, a commemoration with particular local weight — the Channel Islands were the only British territory occupied by German forces during the Second World War, and Jersey remained under occupation from July 1940 until liberation on 9 May 1945. That date is still observed as Liberation Day, a public holiday on the island.

KM#282 is one of several denominations Jersey produced for this anniversary cycle, the copper-nickel version sitting alongside a silver proof issue struck to the same dimensions.