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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Submarines, Gold Proof
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH·II·D·G·REG·F·D·FIVE POUNDS·2015· J.C (Translation: Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God Queen Defender of the Faith) |
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Issued as part of the Royal Mint's broader First World War centenary program, this piece marks the submarine campaigns of 1915 — a year in which the German Admiralty declared the waters around Britain a war zone and U-boats began unrestricted attacks on merchant shipping. The British response involved aggressive deployment of its own submarine fleet in the Baltic and North Sea, with boats of the E-class operating under conditions that killed a substantial proportion of their crews.
The Spink reference WW10 places it within a numbered sequence of gold proofs across the centenary series, each tied to a specific theater or branch of service.