2020 Gold Proof Five Pound Crown (£5), 75th Anniversary End Of World War Two. NGC Graded PF70 Ultra Cameo
£3,489.50
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39.94 Grams Of 22 Carat Gold.
Maximum Coin Mintage: 315
This commemorative £5 Crown-sized coin marks the 75th anniversary of the Second World War.
"After Victory in Europe (VE) Day, attention turned to the Far East where Japan still had to be defeated. The choice for the Allies was a grave one: launch a seaborne invasion at huge human cost or use the atomic capability now at their disposal. First Hiroshima and then Nagasaki were razed to the ground, forcing Japan to surrender. A war that had raged for six years, claimed millions of lives and brought suffering to entire populations was finally at an end.
Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced the news at midnight on 14 August, declaring a two-day public holiday beginning with Victory over Japan (VJ) Day. Up and down the country bonfires were lit and street parties were held as people joined together in celebration; the process of reconciliation and rebuilding could finally begin.
Seventy-five years on we recall one of the most important moments in history with a commemorative £5 coin. Designers Matt Dent and Christian Davies capture the magnitude of events with a design inspired by stone inscriptions on war memorials. The typographic intersection of the words ‘war’ and ‘peace’ captures the sense of the conflict abating and the dawn of a new era."
In the left field of the exergue, a privy mark in the form of the GR royal cypher of King George III, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the end of the reign of the first monarch to appear on the modern Sovereign.
At centre, in the shape of a cross, a vertical inscription WAR shares the middle letter A of the horizontal inscription PEACE.
Around the outer rim of the coin, the inscription THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. Around below, the anniversary dates 1945 · 2020are separated from the other inscription by the designer's initials, CD (for Christian Davies) on the left and MD (for Matthew Dent) on the right.
The face value and denomination are on the obverse.
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