50 Pence - Elizabeth II Churchill - Statesman, Silver Proof

Issued in the year marking the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill's retirement from the British premiership, this piece is one of dozens of commemoratives released across British Overseas Territories in 2005 — a year that saw coordinated Churchill issues from Gibraltar, Jersey, Guernsey, and several others. The Falkland Islands authority had particular reason to invoke Churchill's name: his 1982-era political shadow loomed over the islands through Margaret Thatcher, whose decision to defend the territory he would almost certainly have endorsed.