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Memories of Wartime Britain - The rationing of food
| Location | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The obverse depicts a wartime grocery scene in high relief, showing a female customer and a male shopkeeper across a counter laden with period food products including a prominently labelled tin of Bird's Egg Powder. The curved legend reads around the upper field, with a bold descriptive legend in the lower exergue area, all within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a typographic design filling the central field with a multi-size relief rendering of Winston Churchill's famous 'Finest Hour' speech quotation. The series title legend curves around the upper periphery, while the lower field bears the Imperial War Museum logo, attribution to Churchill dated 18th June 1940, the hallmark and fineness marks, and the year 2008, all within a beaded border. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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