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20 Crowns - Elizabeth II Columbus Explores the Caribbean
| Issuer | Turks and Caicos Islands |
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| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 500th ANNIVERSARY OF COLUMBUS' DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD 1492-1992 Columbus Explores the Caribbean 20 Crown |
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Issued as part of the wave of commemoratives timed to the Quincentenary of Columbus's 1492 voyage, this piece comes from a crowded field — dozens of mints and issuing authorities flooded the market in 1992 with similar silver crowns, many produced for collector revenue rather than any particular historical connection to the subject. The Turks and Caicos Islands hold a plausible geographic claim: Grand Turk was long argued to be Columbus's first landfall, though that identification has been contested since the 1980s Geographic Society review shifted scholarly consensus toward Samana Cay in the Bahamas.
The KM#120.3 designation reflects one of several die or finish variants struck for this type.