The Turks & Caicos Islands are a British overseas territory east of the Bahamas and north of Hispaniola, and have a population of around 35,000. In the early 16th century, the Spanish discovered it and stripped the entire local Taíno population to work on the plantations on Hispaniola. Besides being a pirate hangout, no one settled there until the early 19th century, when British colonists (some of them Loyalists from the now independent USA) started cotton plantations on the islands. It was administered from Jamaica or the Bahamas, but is now administered separately as a British territory. There is some support however for either full independence or a union with Canada, as the islands are popular with Canadian tourists.
Turks & Caicos Islands use the US Dollar (probably since 1966 or 1970) for currency. There are only non-circulating coins with the territory's name on them.
World coins chat: Turks & Caicos Islands
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Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
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Quote: chomp-masterhttp://tcmuseum.org/collections/coins/Legal tender is one thing. Actual use quite another.
The museum says they're legal tender too
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