50 Pence - Elizabeth II VE Day - Young girl with arms in air

Jersey has issued commemorative 50 pence pieces with some regularity, but the VE Day series released in 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the May 1945 surrender — an event that carried particular weight for the island, which had endured five years of German occupation from July 1940 until liberation on 9 May 1945. That date is still observed as a public holiday in Jersey and Guernsey, unlike anywhere else in the British Isles.

Gold-plated steel rather than cupro-nickel signals a collectibles-market issue from the outset — never intended for the till.