10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Queen Mother and a young Prince Charles

Issued in the year of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's death at age 101, this coin is one of dozens of commemoratives flooded onto the collector market by British Overseas Territories exercising their right to issue legal tender under Crown authority — a privilege that generates revenue almost entirely from numismatic sales rather than circulation. The British Virgin Islands, like many such territories, contracted the production of pieces like this to the Pobjoy Mint or similar private operators, with the issuing government receiving a licensing fee per coin sold.

The Queen Mother died on 30 March 2002, triggering a wave of memorial issues across Commonwealth mints that year.