25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Queen Anne

Issued to mark the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, this coin's nominal subject — Queen Anne — references the 1670 grant by which Charles II assigned the Cayman Islands to the Governor of Jamaica, a jurisdictional arrangement that persisted until 1962 when the islands chose to remain a British dependency rather than join the newly independent Jamaica. That decision, unusual enough to attract comment at the time, is the direct reason the Cayman Islands still issue coins under the Crown today.