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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Pegasus Bridge-Colored Poppy
| Issuer | Government of Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Thickness | 3 mm |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem and a pearl necklace with drop earring, after the third portrait by Raphael David Maklouf. The engraver's initials RDM appear in the lower field beneath the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH II is inscribed along the left arc and GIBRALTAR 2004 along the right arc, all within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II GIBRALTAR 2004 RDM |
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Issued for the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings, this coin commemorates the airborne assault on Bénouville Bridge in the early hours of June 6, 1944 — later renamed Pegasus Bridge after the Pegasus emblem of the British 6th Airborne Division. Major John Howard's company of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry landed by glider within meters of the objective, capturing the bridge intact in under fifteen minutes in what is widely regarded as the first Allied ground action of the Normandy campaign.
The applied colored poppy is an enamel addition, a production technique common to Gibraltar commemorative issues of this period.