1 Dollar - Elizabeth II King George III, Gold plated

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.