5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Remembrance Poppy, Silver Proof

Jersey's wartime commemoration coins occupy a peculiar niche — the island was the only British Crown Dependency occupied by German forces during World War II, from June 1940 until liberation in May 1945. That occupation gives Jersey's poppy issues a weight of local specificity that equivalent mainland British commemoratives simply cannot claim. Islanders lived under rationing, forced labor directives, and the deportation of Jewish residents to continental camps.

The KM#418a silver proof variant was struck by the Pobjoy Mint under contract — the long-standing arrangement Jersey has used for collector issues for decades.