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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Duke of Wellington
| Issuer | States of Jersey |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a bust-length portrait of the Duke of Wellington in right three-quarter view, dressed in military uniform with decorations, occupying the right foreground of the design. To the left in the middle ground, a group of Napoleonic-era British infantry soldiers is depicted in formation, bearing muskets with fixed bayonets, evoking the Peninsular War and Waterloo campaigns. The upper arc of the field carries the legend '1769 · THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON · 1852', flanking the birth and death years of the Duke, with the denomination 'FIVE POUNDS' inscribed in two lines across the upper centre of the field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued to mark the bicentenary of Wellington's pivotal role in the Napoleonic Wars, though the more precise hook is Jersey's own exposure to that conflict — the island had repelled a French invasion in 1781 at the Battle of Jersey, and Napoleonic-era threat kept the Channel Islands under sustained military attention for decades. Wellington himself never governed Jersey, but his campaigns ending at Waterloo in 1815 directly secured the island's continued British administration.