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20 Crowns - Elizabeth II Olympic Skier
| Issuer | Turks and Caicos Islands |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 20 Crowns |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II · TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS · 1993 · 20 CROWNS |
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The Turks and Caicos Islands have no indigenous Olympic tradition to speak of — the territory first sent athletes to the Summer Games only in 1996. This 1993 piece is straightforwardly a bullion-adjacent commemorative produced for the collector market, one of dozens of near-identical winter sports issues that flooded the numismatic trade in the early 1990s as small dependent territories discovered crown-sized silver as a reliable revenue stream. The issuing authority had no meaningful connection to the event being commemorated.