5 Dollars XXIII Olympiad Los Angeles

New Zealand's involvement here is nominal — the country issued this coin as part of the broader Licensed National Olympic Committee program that allowed member nations to produce commemorative coinage for the 1984 Los Angeles Games regardless of geographic proximity to the event. Dozens of countries with no direct connection to California did the same, flooding the market and depressing secondary values across the entire series almost immediately after release.

The X# reference prefix signals its classification as a non-circulating legal tender issue in standard catalogs — recognized but peripheral.