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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II End of WWII - Silver
| Issuer | Guernsey |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Diameter | 38.61 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicting two standing male figures raising their right arms in salute before a crowd: Winston Churchill at left giving his iconic two-fingered Victory sign, and King George VI at right in military uniform with his right arm raised. Between and below the two figures is a commemorative roundel inscribed COMMEMORATION with the dates 1945 and 2005 flanking a stylised VE emblem with radiating lines. The legend END OF WORLD WAR II 60TH ANNIVERSARY arcs around the upper field, and FIVE POUNDS is inscribed along the lower exergue. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Guernsey occupies a peculiar position in the WWII commemorative space: it was actually occupied by German forces from June 1940 until May 1945, making it one of the very few British territories to fall under Nazi administration. The liberation on 9 May 1945 — a day still celebrated on the island as Liberation Day — gives this issue a local specificity that most generic Allied victory commemoratives lack entirely.