Catalog
20 Dollars - Elizabeth II HMS Royalist
| Issuer | Government of Tuvalu |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1976-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central depiction of HMS Royalist, a Victorian-era composite corvette of the Royal Navy, rendered in fine detail showing her full sail rig set on three masts alongside a central funnel emitting smoke, with hull ports and wave lines below the waterline indicating underway passage. The denomination 20 DOLLARS appears in two lines at the top of the field, and the vessel's name HMS ROYALIST is inscribed in a straight legend along the lower portion of the field. |
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HMS Royalist was a Royal Navy corvette that served as the vessel from which the Gilbert and Ellice Islands were formally proclaimed a British protectorate in 1892. Captain Davis of the Royalist conducted the annexation negotiations across the atolls that would eventually, nearly a century later, become the independent nations of Kiribati and Tuvalu. By the time Tuvalu issued this coin, the ship had been out of service for the better part of a hundred years, but her administrative role in the archipelago's colonial history gave the Tuvaluan government a direct institutional reason to commemorate her.