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1994 D-Day Landings 50p Brilliant Uncirculated Coin First Day Cover

SKU BU50FDC-021000
£19.95
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Product Details
Manufacturer: Royal Mint
Issuing Country: United Kingdom
Year: 1994
Monarch: Elizabeth II (1953 - 2022)
Collections: Second World War
Series / Ranges: D-Day Landings
Denomination: 50p
Metal: Base Metal
Weight: 13.50 Grams
Diameter: 30.00mm
Quality: Brilliant Uncirculated
Presentation: First Day Cover

In 1994, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Allied Invasion of Europe, the Royal Mint is releasing a Limited Issue Brilliant Uncirculated D-Day Landings 50p Fifty Pence Coin First Day Cover.

Plans to liberate Europe began in earnest in the Spring of 1943. Under the Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D Eisenhower, the air, sea and land might of Britain, the Commonwealth and the United States, as well as units from virtually every occupied country in Europe, were to form the largest invasion force ever seen.

By the Spring of 1944 more than three million men had gathered in Southern England in readiness for the Normandy Landings.
It was realised that an invasion was likely in the Summer of 1944 but the exact date and location remained one of the best kept secrets of the War.
Thus Operation Overlord, one of the most difficult military operations ever undertaken, was able to begin just after midnight on 6th June 1944 - in the first hour of the day that would forever be known as D-Day.

The Allied invasion force filling the sea and sky and heading for Normandy on 6th June vividly captured on this splendid commemorative coin.
The design was created by award winning sculptor John Mills and was inspired by his boyhood recollections of that historic day. Looking up at the sky he saw it filled with distinctively marked planes and realised that the invasion of France was underway.
Raphael Maklouf's much acclaimed portrait of Her Majesty, the Queen graces the obverse.

  • Limited Mintage Worldwide
  • Struck to Royal Mint's Brilliant Uncirculated Quality - A Finer Finish Than Circulating Coins
  • Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings
  • First Day Cover
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