Issued the same year the Queen turned 80, this piece belongs to a wave of commemorative dollar coinage the British Virgin Islands produced throughout the 2000s under licensing arrangements that effectively outsourced design and striking decisions to private minting firms — in this case almost certainly Pobjoy Mint, which held the BVI commemorative contract for much of that decade.
KM#535 is one of dozens of nearly identical topical issues from this territory, distinguished primarily by its subject rather than any minting distinction.
Issued the same year the Queen turned 80, this piece belongs to a wave of commemorative dollar coinage the British Virgin Islands produced throughout the 2000s under licensing arrangements that effectively outsourced design and striking decisions to private minting firms — in this case almost certainly Pobjoy Mint, which held the BVI commemorative contract for much of that decade.
KM#535 is one of dozens of nearly identical topical issues from this territory, distinguished primarily by its subject rather than any minting distinction.