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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II HMS Royalist
| Issuer | Government of Tuvalu |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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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.