50 Pence - Elizabeth II Churchill - Soldier

Issued to mark the 60th anniversary of VE Day, this piece belongs to a broader commemorative program released by several British Overseas Territories in 2005. Churchill's wartime leadership is well-documented, but the Falklands connection carries its own particular weight — the islands' liberation in 1982 remained a live memory for the islanders, lending a different resonance to British wartime commemoration there than it might carry elsewhere.