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50 Pence - Elizabeth II Bayeux Tapestry - 2 Body of King Edward is carried to Church
| Issuer | Jersey |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#331 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Jersey's 2016 Bayeux Tapestry series drew directly from the embroidery commissioned — almost certainly by Odo of Bayeux, Bishop and half-brother to William the Conqueror — sometime in the 1070s. The death of Edward the Confessor on 5 January 1066 and his burial at Westminster Abbey set the entire Norman succession crisis in motion, making this scene among the most politically loaded panels in the work.
The tapestry itself is technically wool embroidery on linen, not a woven tapestry — a distinction scholars have been correcting for decades to little public effect.