5 Pounds - Elizabeth II The First World War

Gibraltar's commemorative program has long served Crown dependency politics as much as numismatic interest, and this 2008 issue marking the First World War is no exception — released ninety years after the Armistice, it landed in a crowded field of British and Commonwealth WWI commemoratives from that anniversary cycle. Gibraltar holds particular peripheral relevance to the conflict: the Rock served as a critical resupply and convoy staging point throughout the war, though it saw no direct combat.