5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Remembrance Day 2012

Jersey issued a series of annual Remembrance commemoratives throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, each tied to a specific aspect of the Channel Islands' wartime experience — the only British territory to suffer German occupation during World War II, from 1940 until liberation in May 1945. That occupation lasted nearly five years and touched every family on the island.

KM#257 is copper-nickel rather than precious metal, placing it firmly in the circulation-intent commemorative tier rather than the proof collector market Jersey also served aggressively during this period.