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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II D-Day Landing 16.05
| Issuer | Guernsey |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem, with a pearl drop earring visible, after the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley, whose initials IRB appear below the truncation. The circumferential legend reads ELIZABETH II to the upper right and BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY to the upper left, while the denomination FIVE POUNDS and the date 2019 appear in the lower field, separated by raised dots. |
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| Mintage | 2019 - Proof - 19,995 |
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Guernsey occupies an unusual position in D-Day history: it was not liberated on June 6, 1944, but remained under German occupation until May 9, 1945 — nearly a year after the Normandy landings that this coin commemorates. The island's civilian population endured the occupation throughout, making Guernsey's relationship with D-Day commemoration distinctly more complicated than that of its Allied neighbors.