In 2002 to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee, the Royal Mint released a special Limited Issue Golden Jubilee Shield Half Sovereign Gold Proof Coin struck in solid 22 Carat Gold to Royal Mint's Proof Finish Certified Slabbed and Graded by PCGS as PR709 DCAM and is paying its own special tribute, a tribute that for numismatics in particular will recall Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee of 1887.

In that year the crowned shield of the Royal Arms, which had featured so prominently on Victoria's beautiful Young Head Sovereigns, was dropped in favour of Pistrucci's St George and The Dragon.

Re-drawn by Timothy Noad, a herald painter at the College of Arms, the design will grace all four coins of the sovereign family.
The obverse bears the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank Broadley FRBS.
These legal tender coins have been struck to proof quality using specially prepared dies and highly polished blanks.

• Limited Issue of 16,947 Worldwide
• Finished to Royal Mint's Proof Standard Struck in 22 Carat Gold
• Reverse features a Shield Designed by Acclaimed Designer Timothy Noad
• Special Reverse Design Celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
• Certified Slabbed and Graded by PCGS as PR70 DCAM