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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Birth of Venus
| Issuer | Government of the British Virgin Islands |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Thickness | 3.1 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Highly detailed relief reproduction of Sandro Botticelli's celebrated Renaissance masterpiece 'The Birth of Venus' (c. 1484-1486). The nude figure of Venus stands centrally upon a large scallop shell, her flowing hair carried by the wind, flanked to the left by the entwined wind gods Zephyr and Aura blowing roses across the sea, and to the right by the Hour of Spring extending a floral-embroidered mantle. The Pobjoy Mint initials PM appear in the lower central field, with the denomination $1 inscribed in the exergue below. |
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The British Virgin Islands has used commemorative coinage since the 1970s as a revenue instrument rather than a circulating currency program — these pieces are sold directly to collectors and never intended for general use. KM#402 is one of dozens of themed issues the territory licensed during the 2000s and 2010s, a period when small jurisdictions competed aggressively for the collector market by attaching famous artworks to their coinage authority.