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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II King George III, Gold plated
| Issuer | British Virgin Islands |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing truncated bust of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. The effigy is depicted with restrained elegance befitting a proof-quality commemorative issue. The circular legend reads BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS QUEEN ELIZABETH II, with the date 2008 positioned below. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued to mark the 250th anniversary of George III's accession, this is a commemorative novelty rather than a bullion product — the gold plating is decorative, applied over a copper-nickel planchet of the same dimensions used across dozens of BVI commemorative dollar issues from the period. George III remains a complicated figure: reviled in American historiography for his role in the Revolution, he was in practice a constitutional monarch whose government made most colonial decisions without him, and who spent the last decade of his reign in a state of complete mental incapacity.