50 Pence - Charles III Winston Churchill, Silver 1/2 oz.

Alderney, a Crown Dependency sitting closer to the French coast than the English, has issued commemorative coinage under royal warrant since the early 1990s, typically through the Pobjoy Mint or the Royal Mint on contract. Churchill himself spent part of the Second World War acutely aware of Alderney's fate — it was the only British territory to be almost entirely evacuated before German occupation in 1940, and the only place on British soil where the Nazis constructed concentration camps. Whether that geographical connection informed this commission or simply provided a convenient licensing hook is a matter of commercial interpretation.