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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait, Victoria Twenty Sovereigns
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of New Zealand |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | NEW ZEALAND .917 Au 77.8 g ELIZABETH II 50 DOLLARS IRB 2019 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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This issue recreates the Victorian-era Twenty Sovereigns denomination — a face value that never existed as a circulating coin in the British monetary system. The Reserve Bank packaged it as a collector piece tied to the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth in 1819, bundling the weight of twenty sovereigns into a single slug of 22-carat gold.
New Zealand's legal tender face value of fifty dollars is purely nominal — the gold content alone exceeds that by orders of magnitude at any modern spot price.