5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Samuel Hood, Silver Proof

Admiral Samuel Hood spent much of his career overshadowed by Rodney and later Nelson, yet his handling of the Chesapeake campaign and his aggressive pursuit at the Battle of the Saintes in 1782 earned him a reputation as arguably the most tactically gifted British admiral of the late eighteenth century. Alderney issued a series of silver proofs in the early 2000s commemorating naval figures, Hood among them, tying the Channel Islands to a tradition of celebrating British sea power that carries genuine geographic logic — the islands sat directly within waters Hood's fleets patrolled.

KM#66a distinguishes the silver proof from the base metal circulation issue struck in the same year.