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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II RAF Centenary Silver Proof
| Issuer | Jersey |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Engraver(s) | Ian Rank-Broadley FRBS |
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| Obverse description | Fourth portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, depicting the monarch with a diademed and elaborately coiffured head, rendered in high relief in the style of Ian Rank-Broadley. The circumferential legend reads ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF JERSEY, with the date 2018 positioned at the lower right of the field. The engraver's initials IRB appear beneath the truncation of the bust. |
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| Reverse description | Central design featuring the Royal Air Force roundel emblem above a diagonal formation of three historically significant British aircraft representing the span of RAF service: a First World War-era Sopwith Camel biplane, a Second World War Supermarine Spitfire, and a modern Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II. The composition commemorates the centenary of the Royal Air Force, founded in 1918. The upper legend reads ROYAL AIR FORCE, flanked by the dates 1918 - 2018, with the denomination FIVE POUNDS inscribed along the lower portion of the field. |
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The Royal Air Force was formally established on 1 April 1918, created by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service — a merger that the Admiralty fought bitterly and never fully accepted. Jersey's position in the Channel Islands made RAF operations particularly consequential for its residents; the islands were the only British territory occupied by Germany during the Second World War, and liberation in May 1945 came partly through air superiority the RAF had spent years building.
KM#361b is the silver iteration of a multi-composition release, with base metal and gold variants struck alongside it in the same centenary program.