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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Remembrance Day 2019, Gold Proof
| Issuer | Jersey |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF JERSEY IRB 2019 |
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Jersey's Remembrance issues have become an annual fixture, but the 2019 edition marked the centenary of the first two-minute silence, observed on 11 November 1919 at the suggestion of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick — a proposal relayed to King George V through the Colonial Secretary and adopted with less than three weeks' notice. The silence was not yet the fixed national ritual it would become; that first observance was improvised, uncertain, and in some cities barely coordinated.
The selective rose-gold plating on a .999 fine substrate is a finishing technique that complicates die life and requires secondary electroplating after striking — not standard for bullion-weight proofs of this size.