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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Lady of the Century
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Weight | 155.5 g |
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| Obverse lettering | QUEEN ELIZABETH II · TUVALU · 1996 · |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued the year before her death, this coin was part of a wave of Commonwealth commemoratives anticipating Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's centenary — still four years away in 2000. Tuvalu, a Pacific microstate with a population then under 10,000, had no independent monetary tradition of its own; its commemorative program existed almost entirely as a revenue mechanism through collector sales rather than circulation.
The 155.5g specification places this firmly in the five-troy-ounce category, a format popular with Pacific island issuers throughout the 1990s for its bullion appeal to the Asian collector market.