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50 Pence - Charles III Lest We Forget; Triedfort
| Issuer | Falkland Islands (British Overseas Territories) |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Uncrowned effigy of King Charles III facing left, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field, after the portrait by Martin Jennings. The peripheral legend arcs around the upper and lower portions of the heptagonal flan, with the denomination '50P' appearing to the lower right and the date '2025' in the lower exergual area, flanked by two raised dots. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The "Lest We Forget" phrase entered British military remembrance culture largely through Rudyard Kipling's 1897 poem "Recessional," though it has since become inseparable from Armistice commemorations. Its application here, on a Falkland Islands issue, carries specific weight: the islands lost 255 British servicemen in the 1982 conflict with Argentina, and the territory's population — fewer than 4,000 people — maintains an unusually direct relationship with that loss. The rose gold layering is almost certainly applied to the poppy element of the design, a technique Pobjoy Mint and similar specialists have used on remembrance issues since at least the 2010s.