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20 Crowns - Elizabeth II Diver
| Issuer | Turks and Caicos Islands |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II - TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS 1995 · 20 CROWNS · |
| Reverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a stylized male diver in a forward pike position is depicted above a decorative motif of curved stylized flames rising from a horizontal baseline representing water, rendered with flowing lines. The designer's initials LB appear in the lower right field near the flame device. The legend XXVI SUMMER OLYMPICS arcs along the upper periphery, and ATLANTA 1996 is inscribed along the lower periphery, commemorating the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. |
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The Turks and Caicos Islands adopted the crown as a collectors-only denomination in the 1970s, producing no circulating coinage of its own and relying on the US dollar for everyday transactions. These silver issues were minted exclusively for the numismatic market, a revenue strategy pursued aggressively by smaller British Overseas Territories throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
KM#205 is part of a marine life series tied loosely to the Islands' reputation as a world-class dive destination — the Caicos Bank and surrounding walls were already drawing technical divers by the mid-1990s.