50 Pence - Elizabeth II HMS Victory, struck by musket ball

HMS Victory is best known as Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar in 1805, but the ship had already seen four decades of active service before that engagement. During the American Revolutionary War she served as flagship of Admiral Kempenfelt, who went down with HMS Royal George in 1782 — not aboard Victory. The "struck by musket ball" conceit on this issue references the combat damage sustained during Trafalgar itself, when French and Spanish marksmen targeted British officers on open decks.

Jersey has issued a long run of nautical commemoratives; this sits in a subseries focusing on battle-specific damage artifacts rather than the ship as a whole.