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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Rubens
| Issuer | British Virgin Islands |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Weight | 19 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped and crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, engraved by Raphael David Maklouf, wearing a pearl necklace and drop earring, with the maker's initials RDM visible at the truncation. The legend ELIZABETH THE SECOND arcs along the upper left and BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS along the upper right, while the date 2000, flanked by two raised dots, appears in the lower exergue. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH THE SECOND BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS RDM 2000 |
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Issued under a licensing arrangement that allowed the British Virgin Islands to produce commemorative coinage far outside its economic or historical orbit, this piece belongs to a wave of late-1990s silver issues that used Old Master painters as subject matter primarily to capture the European collector market. Rubens died in 1640, leaving an estate that included hundreds of completed and workshop-assisted canvases — the attribution disputes alone have occupied art historians for decades.