5 Crowns - Elizabeth II VE-Day

The Turks and Caicos Islands had no independent mint authority and issued commemorative crowns throughout the 1980s and 1990s almost entirely as a revenue mechanism, contracting production to outside facilities for collector sales rather than circulation. This piece marks the 50th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe, a theme struck to death across Commonwealth territories in 1995 — nearly every British overseas dependency issued something for VE-Day that year.

KM#136 is a standard copper-nickel crown of the type the islands produced prolifically during this period, almost none of which saw a day of actual commerce.