5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Save the Children

The Save the Children Fund, founded in London in 1919 by Eglantyne Jebb in response to post-war famine in Central Europe, became the subject of a wave of commemorative issues from Commonwealth territories during the late 1980s as the organization approached its 70th anniversary. The Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory with a mint program heavily oriented toward collector sales rather than circulation, issued this piece within that commemorative context.

The .925 silver specification and 28.28g weight align with the Crown-sized format widely adopted for Commonwealth commemoratives of the period, produced largely through the Royal Mint and its contracted partners for export to the collector market.