25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Columbus seated on shore

Issued as part of the wave of commemoratives timed to the quincentenary of Columbus's 1492 landfall, this coin belongs to a period when the Royal Mint and affiliated Commonwealth territories flooded the market with 1992-dated silver issues. The BVI, having no pre-Columbian or colonial-era numismatic tradition of its own, leaned heavily on the anniversary as a licensing opportunity rather than a matter of local historical connection — Columbus never landed on Tortola.