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| Issuer | Turks and Caicos Islands |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 20 Crowns |
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| Reverse description | Facing three-quarter portrait of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, depicted in advanced age wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a pearl necklace, rendered in fine relief against a polished proof field. A beaded inner border frames the central effigy. The legend 'HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH' arcs along the upper periphery, with 'THE QUEEN MOTHER' inscribed in a curved legend across the lower portion of the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER |
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Issued the year before her 100th birthday, this coin anticipates what became a global commemorative frenzy surrounding Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's centennial in 2000. The Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory, leaned heavily on royal commemoratives throughout the 1990s as a revenue stream — collector-market issues rather than circulating coinage.