Issued to mark Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee — her 70th year on the throne, a milestone reached by no British monarch before her — this coin was struck in the final months before her death in September 2022. New Zealand's relationship with the Crown is constitutionally direct: Elizabeth II was Queen of New Zealand as a separate legal title, not merely by extension of the British crown, a distinction formalized under the Royal Titles Act 1953.
Issued to mark Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee — her 70th year on the throne, a milestone reached by no British monarch before her — this coin was struck in the final months before her death in September 2022. New Zealand's relationship with the Crown is constitutionally direct: Elizabeth II was Queen of New Zealand as a separate legal title, not merely by extension of the British crown, a distinction formalized under the Royal Titles Act 1953.