20 Crowns - Elizabeth II Lancaster

The Turks and Caicos Islands adopted the U.S. dollar as official currency in 1973, which makes their crown-denominated issues a curiosity from the outset — struck purely for the collector market, never intended to circulate. This piece belongs to a series commemorating the House of Lancaster, one of several dynastic and royal heritage programs the islands issued through the 1990s to generate collector revenue, a common fiscal strategy among British Overseas Territories with limited economic base.

KM#165 was produced by the Pobjoy Mint, the Surrey-based private mint responsible for the majority of Turks and Caicos commemorative issues during this period.