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50 Dollars Royal Wedding
| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#175 |
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| Obverse lettering | JAMAICA 1995 OUT OF MANY, ONE PEOPLE |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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This issue commemorates the 1994 marriage of Lady Helen Windsor to Timothy Taylor — a wedding that received considerably less public attention than earlier royal events but was nonetheless marked by several Caribbean nations with bullion-adjacent commemoratives. Jamaica's program through the mid-1990s targeted the collector market rather than circulation, and pieces like this one were sold directly through numismatic channels at a premium over melt.
The .583 fineness is 14-karat gold, a deliberate cost-reduction choice that kept premiums accessible without dropping below the threshold many collectors accept for gold commemoratives.