2005 £5 Nelson & Trafalgar Proof PF70 ULTRA CAMEO

James Butler's portrait of Nelson is on the reverse and Ian Rank-Broadley's portrait of the Queen on the obverse. The edge carries Nelson's signal: ENGLAND EXPECTS THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY.

Horatio Nelson was a Vice-Admiral of the British Navy. He served as an officer in the American War of Independence and later in the French Revolutionary Wars against Napoleon, losing his right eye in Corsica and his right arm a few years later at Tenerife. He was fatally wounded by a French sharpshooter at Trafalgar and died there, aged 47.

Mintage 1,805.