25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Engraved Printing Block

The British Virgin Islands issued a short series of coins in the late 1980s commemorating the history of printing and engraving — trades with genuine relevance to a territory whose economy had become heavily dependent on philatelic and numismatic sales to collectors rather than on circulation coinage. This piece belongs to that series, with the printing block theme referencing intaglio engraving techniques that predate modern currency production by centuries.

KM#102 is not a scarce issue by absolute mintage, but collector demand has remained thin outside specialist topical markets.