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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Raphael
| Issuer | British Virgin Islands |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after the third portrait by Raphael David Maklouf, depicting the Queen wearing the George IV State Diadem and a pearl necklace with drop earring. The engraver's initials RDM appear on the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH THE SECOND arcs along the upper left rim, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS along the upper right rim, and the date 2000 appears at the base flanked by two raised dots, all within a plain raised border. |
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| Mint | Franklin Mint (The Franklin Mint), Wawa, Pennsylvania, United States (1964-date) |
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Issued under the British Virgin Islands' aggressive commemorative program of the late 1990s and early 2000s, which leveraged the territory's Crown dependency status to produce high-margin collector pieces with no intended circulation. Raphael died in 1520 at thirty-seven, and the attribution of his precise output remains contested — scholars still dispute how many works bearing his name were substantially completed by his workshop rather than his own hand.