50 Pence - Elizabeth II Coronation Jubilee

Jersey issued this piece to mark the 60th anniversary of Elizabeth II's coronation, which took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey — a ceremony watched by an estimated 27 million people on television in the UK alone, the first British coronation to be broadcast. Jersey, as a Crown dependency rather than part of the United Kingdom, has always maintained its own coinage rights, a privilege dating to a grant predating modern constitutional arrangements.

Gold-plated steel crowns of this type were produced in significant numbers for the collector market rather than general circulation.