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50 Pence - Elizabeth II WWI - Cenotaph
| Issuer | States of Guernsey |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Thickness | 2.89 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY · IRB · FIFTY PENCE · 2016 |
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| Reverse lettering | TO THE END, THEY REMAIN · MCMXIX |
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Guernsey's WWI centenary program produced a sprawling series of commemoratives between 2014 and 2018, this Cenotaph piece among them. The island lost a disproportionate share of its population in the Great War — roughly 1,100 Guernseymen died from a pre-war population of around 42,000, a casualty rate that hit rural parishes particularly hard. The Cenotaph at St. Peter Port was unveiled in 1926, four years after Lutyens' London original set the template.
Gold-plated copper issues of this type were produced for the collector market and saw no meaningful circulation.