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====Commemorative coins and exhibitions==== In 2014, the [[Royal Mint]] issued a colour-printed [[Alderney]] [[Five pounds (British coin)|Β£5 coin]], designed by engraver Laura Clancy, to commemorate Remembrance Day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.royalmint.com/shop/The_Remembrance_Day_2014_Alderney_5_pound_Brilliant_Uncirculated_Coin|title=The Remembrance Day 2014 Alderney Β£5 Brilliant Uncirculated Coin|author=Darrell|work=The Royal Mint|access-date=11 November 2014|archive-date=2 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402041927/http://www.royalmint.com/shop/The_Remembrance_Day_2014_Alderney_5_pound_Brilliant_Uncirculated_Coin|url-status=dead}}</ref> Also in 2014, to commemorate the outbreak of World War I a huge display called [[Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red]], consisting of 888,246 ceramic poppies was installed in the moat of the [[Tower of London]], each poppy representing a British Empire fatality.<ref>{{cite news |title=WW1 centenary poppies 'planted' in Tower of London moat |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-28294770 |access-date=10 November 2020 |work=BBC News |date=17 July 2014}}</ref> On 5 November 2018 and set to continue for 4 months, about 10,000 torches were lit at the foot of the Tower's walls, in its dry [[moat]] to mark the [[centenary]] of the end of the World War I.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/05/tower-of-london-lights-up-in-stunning-armistice-memorial|title=Tower of London lights up in stunning Armistice memorial|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=5 November 2018|access-date=13 November 2018}}</ref>
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