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20 Crowns - Elizabeth II Uruguay
| Issuer | Turks and Caicos Islands |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | Two football players facing each other and shaking hands at centre, rendered in high relief against a stylised background suggesting a stadium crowd and stands. A World Cup trophy appears between them in the upper central field. The legend WORLD CUP '94 arcs across the upper periphery, while URUGUAY WINNERS 1930 · 1950 is inscribed along the lower periphery, commemorating Uruguay's two FIFA World Cup victories. |
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| Reverse lettering | WORLD CUP `94 URUGUAY WINNERS 1930-1950 |
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The Turks and Caicos Islands adopted the crown as their official currency unit in 1969, pegged to the US dollar, though US currency functions as the territory's de facto circulating medium. This issue belongs to a long series of commemorative crowns struck in fine silver for the collector market — coins that never meaningfully circulated and were produced primarily for export sale. The Elizabeth II subject here places this among dozens of similar royal portrait issues commissioned by British Overseas Territories throughout the 1990s as revenue-generating programs.
KM#96 is documented but not widely studied in specialist literature.