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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Roche Brasiliano
| Issuer | British Virgin Islands |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem, with pearl drop earring and necklace visible, executed in the third portrait by Raphael David Maklouf. The legend 'ELIZABETH THE SECOND' arcs along the upper left rim, while 'BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS' continues along the upper right. The date '2000' appears in the lower exergue flanked by two raised dots, and the engraver's initials 'RDM' are incorporated into the design. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Roche Braziliano was a Dutch-born buccaneer operating out of Port Royal in the 1660s, notorious even by the standards of his contemporaries — Alexandre Exquemelin's Buccaneers of America singles him out for cruelty unusual enough to alarm other pirates. The British Virgin Islands issued a series of silver crowns around 2000 commemorating Golden Age pirates with historical connections to the Caribbean, and Braziliano fits the geography if loosely: he raided primarily along the Cuban and Yucatán coasts before capture by the Spanish, from whom he escaped.