20 Crowns - Elizabeth II Runners

Issued to coincide with the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, this piece is part of a broader wave of commemorative silver crowns the Turks and Caicos Islands produced through the 1990s — a period when the territory leaned heavily on licensed commemorative coinage as a revenue stream, with little expectation that the coins would ever circulate. The islands had no independent central bank and used the US dollar for everyday transactions, making the crown denomination essentially fictional from the outset.