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20 Crowns - Elizabeth II Santa Maria
| Issuer | Turks and Caicos Islands |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 20 Crowns |
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| Obverse description | Refined right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the portrait by Arnold Machin, depicting the Queen with a diadem and wearing a draped neckline. The legend ELIZABETH II · TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS curves along the upper periphery, while the date 1992 appears in the exergue below the portrait. The bust occupies the central field against a mirror-polished proof background. |
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| Reverse lettering | 500th ANNIVERSARY OF COLUMBUS' DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD 1492-1992 The Santa Maria 20 Crown |
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The Santa Maria issue belongs to a sprawling series of commemoratives the Turks and Caicos Islands produced around the 1992 quincentenary of Columbus's first Atlantic crossing. The islands had no particular connection to Columbus's 1492 voyage — the landfall debate has historically centered on San Salvador and other Bahamian candidates — making this, like most Caribbean quincentenary coinage of the period, a revenue exercise rather than a historical claim.