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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Reflections of a Reign
| Issuer | Guernsey |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY 2015 IRB |
| Reverse description | The reverse, designed by David Cornell, features a large ghosted profile effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing left, overlaid across the entire field as a background image evoking reflection and retrospection. Superimposed upon this portrait is a typographically arranged series of inscriptions in varying font sizes commemorating significant events and milestones of the Queen's reign, including the Coronation, the first television broadcast, the conquest of Everest, the 1966 World Cup, the Swinging Sixties, Concorde, Decimalisation, the Silver, Golden and Diamond Jubilees, the Millennium, Music, the World Wide Web, and Sporting Achievement. The denomination £5 appears at the base of the design in a prominent display typeface. |
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Issued to mark the moment Elizabeth II became Britain's longest-reigning monarch on September 9, 2015, surpassing Queen Victoria's record of 63 years and 216 days. The timing was close enough that the Royal Mint and several Crown Dependencies rushed commemorative programs into production with minimal lead time. Guernsey's copper-nickel version was aimed squarely at the mass collector market rather than the numismatic one.