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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Nippon Maru
| Issuer | British Virgin Islands |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Value | 20 Dollars (20 USD) |
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| Reverse description | Central depiction of the Japanese training tall ship Nippon Maru under full sail on stylized ocean waves, rendered in fine detail with rigging, masts, and a mon device on the mainsail. The vessel is framed by a decorative rope or cable border with corner flourishes, evoking a cartouche design. A scroll banner above the ship bears the legend NIPPON MARU, while a second scroll banner below carries the date 1592. The denomination $20 appears in the upper right field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Nippon Maru is a Japanese sail training vessel, the second to bear that name, launched in 1984 and operated by the Japanese government to train merchant marine cadets. The British Virgin Islands issued commemoratives of this kind under licensing arrangements common to small Caribbean territories that maintain no meaningful domestic demand for such coins — production was aimed squarely at the collector market, with the Royal Mint and private minting houses facilitating dozens of similar ship series across the 1990s and early 2000s.
Actual circulation on Tortola: effectively zero.