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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II Lawrence of Arabia, Colored
| Issuer | British Virgin Islands |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS QUEEN ELIZABETH II 2014 IRB |
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| Reverse lettering | WE WILL REMEMBER THEM PM $1 |
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Issued under a licensing arrangement that allowed the British Virgin Islands to produce commemorative coinage well beyond any domestic monetary need, this piece belongs to a wave of colorized collector issues that flooded the market in the 2000s and 2010s. The BVI's currency authority has long used such releases primarily as a revenue stream rather than for circulation. T.E. Lawrence himself died in 1935 following a motorcycle accident in Dorset, six weeks after the crash — long before his image became a global commodity of this kind.