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50 Pence - Charles III Wartime Food Rationing
| Issuer | States of Jersey |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Charles III facing left, rendered in high relief with fine detail to the hair and facial features. The circumferential legend reads CHARLES III · BAILIWICK OF JERSEY, divided by small pellets, running from lower left to lower right around the portrait. The date 2025, flanked by two pellets, appears in the lower field beneath the effigy. The design is set within the characteristic heptagonal flan of the Jersey 50 pence series. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Jersey's wartime rationing experience was among the harshest in the British Isles — the only part of the British Crown to suffer full German occupation from 1940 to 1945. By 1944, caloric intake on the island had fallen to starvation levels, with the civilian population reduced to foraging for anything edible before a Red Cross relief ship, the SS Vega, arrived in December of that year carrying food parcels that likely prevented mass deaths.