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50 Pence - Elizabeth II V.E. Day
| Issuer | Falkland Islands |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Third-generation effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, as modelled by Raphael David Maklouf, wearing the George IV State Diadem adorned with floral and foliate ornaments. The Queen's draped bust is rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished proof field, with the engraver's initials RDM visible on the truncation. The circumferential legend reads QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND, disposed in large serif capitals along the upper periphery. |
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| Reverse lettering | V.E-DAY ANNIVERSARY FALKLAND ISLANDS 50 1995 |
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The Falkland Islands issued this coin a decade after the 1982 conflict that had made the islands internationally known, and the timing of the V.E. Day fiftieth anniversary carried particular local weight. Argentine forces had surrendered on June 14, 1982 — a victory the islanders explicitly connected to the broader tradition of British armed resistance commemorated here. The overlap between wartime memory and recent lived experience gave the anniversary unusual resonance in Stanley.