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1⁄100 Dollar - George IV Pattern
| Issuer | British West Indies |
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| Year | 1823 |
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| Value | 1⁄100 Dollar (0.01) |
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| Obverse lettering | GEOR·IV D·G· BRI·REX· (Translation: George IV, by the Grace of God, King of Britain) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 1823 British West Indies pattern series was produced in London as part of an attempt to impose a unified decimal coinage across the Caribbean colonies — a project that never advanced beyond the pattern stage. Colonial merchants and planters resisted standardization fiercely, preferring the chaotic but familiar mix of cut Spanish dollars, local countermarked pieces, and commodity exchange that already governed trade. The decimal fraction denominations, including this one-hundredth, had no precedent in colonial commerce and no constituency willing to adopt them.
Pridmore records only a handful of confirmed examples across the pattern series.