Issued to mark the quincentenary of Columbus's 1492 voyage, this piece belongs to a sprawling wave of commemorative silver struck by British dependent territories in the early 1990s — many sharing identical or near-identical reverse dies across multiple issuers. The KM#118.2 designation distinguishes this from the .999 fine variant (118.1), a relatively rare case where the Turks and Caicos issued the same commemorative type in two distinct alloys simultaneously.
Issued to mark the quincentenary of Columbus's 1492 voyage, this piece belongs to a sprawling wave of commemorative silver struck by British dependent territories in the early 1990s — many sharing identical or near-identical reverse dies across multiple issuers. The KM#118.2 designation distinguishes this from the .999 fine variant (118.1), a relatively rare case where the Turks and Caicos issued the same commemorative type in two distinct alloys simultaneously.