Gibraltar has issued commemorative crowns under royal warrant since the 1970s, and Churchill has appeared on dozens of such pieces from various Commonwealth territories — making individual issues largely interchangeable from a historical standpoint. This gold-plated bronze variant of the 2015 issue is a collector convenience piece rather than a coinage event of any numismatic consequence. Churchill died in January 1965; the fiftieth anniversary drove a wave of nearly identical commemoratives across multiple jurisdictions that year.
Gibraltar has issued commemorative crowns under royal warrant since the 1970s, and Churchill has appeared on dozens of such pieces from various Commonwealth territories — making individual issues largely interchangeable from a historical standpoint. This gold-plated bronze variant of the 2015 issue is a collector convenience piece rather than a coinage event of any numismatic consequence. Churchill died in January 1965; the fiftieth anniversary drove a wave of nearly identical commemoratives across multiple jurisdictions that year.