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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Coronation Jubilee
| Issuer | Tuvalu |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing a tiara and pearl earrings, modeled by Raphael David Maklouf. The legend QUEEN ELIZABETH II flanks the portrait along the upper rim, with TUVALU appearing to the right. The initials RDM appear below the truncation, and the date 1993 is inscribed in the lower field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Tuvalu's early commemorative program in the 1980s and 1990s leaned heavily on Commonwealth milestones, largely because the island nation — consisting of nine atolls with a population well under 10,000 — had little independent monetary history to draw from. The 1993 date marks the 40th anniversary of the Coronation, a jubilee that generated commemorative issues across several Commonwealth territories simultaneously, making the Tuvaluan piece one of many competing for the same collector market.
Mintage figures for this series were kept deliberately low to sustain secondary market premiums — a pricing strategy that defined Pacific island coinage of this period broadly.