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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Coronation Jubilee
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 20 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | QUEEN ELIZABETH II · TUVALU RDM · 1993 · |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Tuvalu's early commemorative program in the 1980s and 1990s leaned heavily on Commonwealth milestones, largely because the island nation — consisting of nine atolls with a population well under 10,000 — had little independent monetary history to draw from. The 1993 date marks the 40th anniversary of the Coronation, a jubilee that generated commemorative issues across several Commonwealth territories simultaneously, making the Tuvaluan piece one of many competing for the same collector market.
Mintage figures for this series were kept deliberately low to sustain secondary market premiums — a pricing strategy that defined Pacific island coinage of this period broadly.