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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II D-Day, Silver Proof
| Issuer | Alderney |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Reverse description | Two Allied infantrymen in full battle dress and steel helmets advance through the surf and beach obstacles during the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944, rendered in high relief against a mirror-proof field. The foreground soldier is depicted in close profile carrying a rifle, with beach obstacles including hedgehogs and barbed wire visible in the background, conveying the peril and determination of the D-Day assault. The legend around the periphery names all five Normandy landing beaches and the Pointe du Hoc objective, together with the commemorative inscription D-DAY 6TH JUNE 1944. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Alderney occupied a peculiar position on June 6, 1944: it was the only British territory that remained under German occupation during the Normandy landings, its civilian population having been evacuated in 1940. The island sat less than 80 miles from the landing beaches but played no part in the liberation unfolding to its south. That irony — a British dependency issuing D-Day commemoratives from soil that was itself never liberated by the operation — is rarely acknowledged in the marketing around these pieces.
Alderney has used commemorative coinage as a revenue mechanism since the 1990s, with issues contracted through the Pobjoy Mint.