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20 Crowns - Elizabeth II Christopher Columbus
| Issuer | Turks and Caicos Islands |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Value | 20 Crowns |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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Issued the year before the United States Bicentennial touched off a flood of commemorative coinage across the Caribbean, this piece belongs to an early wave of crown-sized silver issues from British overseas territories that were produced almost entirely for the collector market. The Turks and Caicos had virtually no domestic coin circulation to speak of — the U.S. dollar served as the functional currency — making commemorative releases the territory's primary engagement with numismatics.
Columbus made landfall in the general vicinity of the Turks and Caicos in October 1492, with Grand Turk having a plausible historical claim as the first island he encountered, though the exact landfall site remains disputed among historians.