(Oct 28, 2012)
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| Geo | Virgin Islands, British | | Year | 1976 | | Composition | Gold | |
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| Shape | Coin | | Diameter (mm.) | 23 | | Thickness (mm) | 1.4 | | |
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0.2054 oz
7.10 grams
24.5 mm
It was only a few decades later that Columbus named the islands Las Vírgenes in a somewhat obscure reference to St Ursula and her 11,000 virgins
The obverse features the Arnold Machin portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the tiara given as a wedding present from her grandmother to Queen Mary
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