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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Gold Monstrance
| Issuer | Government of the British Virgin Islands |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Weight | 19.09 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH THE SECOND···BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS RDM ·1985· |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The 1985 BVI gold monstrance issue was part of a broader wave of Commonwealth gold commemoratives produced in the mid-1980s, when smaller dependent territories increasingly used licensed coinage programs as revenue instruments rather than circulating currency. The Franklin Mint and similar contractors handled most of these runs, pressing designs of religious or cultural significance for collector markets in North America and Europe.
The monstrance itself has roots in 14th-century Catholic Europe — a vessel designed to display the consecrated host. Its appearance on a BVI coin is an artifact of the islands' colonial Catholic heritage from Spanish and Danish occupation periods, not an Anglican one.