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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II DBF: Ginger Lacey
| Issuer | States of Jersey |
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| Year | 2010 |
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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, rendered in high relief after the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley. The truncation of the bust is signed with the engraver's initials IRB. The circular legend reads ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF JERSEY, with the date 2010 positioned in the lower right field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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James "Ginger" Lacey was the highest-scoring RAF fighter pilot of the Battle of Britain, credited with 18 confirmed kills — more than any other British pilot in that campaign. He was also the man who shot down the Heinkel He 111 that bombed Buckingham Palace in September 1940. Jersey, occupied by Germany for the entire duration of the war, could not have issued anything in his honour at the time; this coin arrives seventy years later.