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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, Council of Elrond
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Fourth portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, with a pearl drop earring visible. The legend NEW ZEALAND arcs across the upper left field and ELIZABETH across the upper right, with the regnal numeral II at the lower right. The date 2003 appears at the bottom of the field, and the engraver's initials IRB are incused below the portrait truncation. The design is rendered in high relief against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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| Mintage | 2003 - Proof - 1,204 |
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Issued as part of New Zealand's official Lord of the Rings coin program tied to the release of Peter Jackson's film trilogy, this piece was licensed through New Line Cinema and produced while the films were still in active theatrical release — The Two Towers had opened in December 2002, and The Return of the King was still a year away. New Zealand's involvement was not merely commercial; the government actively promoted the country as Middle-earth during this period as a tourism strategy, and the coin program was a direct extension of that policy.
KM#258 is one of several collector issues from this series struck to the same silver specification, limiting secondary-market differentiation almost entirely to subject matter.