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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II The Work Continues, Silver Proof
| Issuer | Guernsey |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, rendered in the fourth definitive portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley. The Queen is depicted with a tiara and light drapery at the shoulder. The legend encircles the field, reading ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY 2002, with the engraver's initials IRB appearing below the truncation. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II, this is the silver proof variant of a commemorative program Guernsey released alongside several other Channel Island dependencies producing their own Jubilee coinage that year. Guernsey has maintained its own coinage rights as a Crown dependency outside the United Kingdom proper, meaning its issues are legal tender on the island but not in Britain itself.
The title "The Work Continues" references the Queen's active public duties at the fifty-year mark of her reign — a pointed contrast to earlier jubilee rhetoric.