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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Sir Winston Churchill - Gold
| Issuer | Guernsey |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the George IV State Diadem, rendered in the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley. The Queen's neckline is bare and the portrait is rendered with fine detail. The engraver's initials IRB appear below the truncation. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY, with the date 1999 at lower right. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Churchill died in January 1965, and Guernsey — like the rest of the British Isles — observed the national mourning period that followed the largest state funeral Britain had staged since Wellington's in 1852. This 1999 gold issue arrived thirty-four years later, timed to the 125th anniversary of his birth. Guernsey had particular reason to mark Churchill: his government's decision not to defend the Channel Islands in 1940 left the islands under German occupation for five years, a point of complicated historical memory the anniversary conveniently sidestepped.