25 Dollars Golden Wedding

Issued to commemorate the golden wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in 1997, this coin belongs to a broad category of Commonwealth commemoratives produced that year across dozens of issuing territories. Jamaica had severed formal ties with the Crown as head of state in 1962 upon independence, yet continued issuing royal commemoratives through the Bank of Jamaica well into the following decades — a commercial arrangement with the Franklin Mint and similar distributors rather than any expression of constitutional allegiance.