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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II Trooping the Colours - Silver

Issuer States of Guernsey
Year 2003
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Reference(s) KM#121a
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Obverse lettering ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY 2003
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Reverse script Latin
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Guernsey has issued commemorative five-pound pieces with enough regularity that individual subjects blur together, and this 2003 Trooping the Colour issue sits firmly in that crowded field. The ceremony itself dates to the late 17th century as a method of displaying regimental colours to troops who needed to recognize them in battle — a practical military drill long since converted into annual pageant.

KM#121a denotes the silver variant struck alongside a base-metal counterpart, a now-standard practice for Channel Island commemoratives targeting the collector market rather than circulation.

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