50 Pence - Charles III King's First Year - State Opening Parliament, Gold Proof

The State Opening of Parliament depicted here marks Charles III's first such ceremony as monarch, held in November 2022 — the first King's Speech in over seventy years, given that the ritual address had been the Queen's Speech throughout the entirety of Elizabeth II's reign. The Isle of Man, as a Crown Dependency, operates outside the UK Parliament but maintains the Crown as head of state, giving Tynwald — one of the world's oldest continuous parliaments — its own distinct constitutional relationship with the ceremony being commemorated.

Struck at 22-carat in a 15.5g flan, this sits in the same specification family as the traditional British gold sovereign series.