5 Pounds - Elizabeth II D-Day, Silver Proof

Issued to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, this coin holds particular weight for Jersey specifically — the island had been under German occupation since July 1940 and was not liberated until May 9, 1945, nearly a full year after the Normandy assault that ultimately made that liberation possible. Jersey's occupation was the longest of any British territory during the war, and the Channel Islands remain the only part of the British Isles to have been held by Nazi forces.