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1 Cent - Elizabeth II 1st portrait
| Issuer | British Caribbean Territories Currency Board |
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| Year | 1955-1965 |
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| In circulation to | 1965 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The numeral 1 in large relief occupies the central field, flanked on either side by upswept palm fronds forming a wreath-like motif that meets at the base. The denomination CENT appears below the numeral within the wreath. The date is inscribed at the bottom of the field, below the fronds. The surrounding legend BRITISH CARIBBEAN TERRITORIES arcs across the upper periphery, while EASTERN GROUP appears at the lower periphery between two pellets, all within a dentilated border. |
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The British Caribbean Territories Currency Board was established in 1950 to provide a unified currency across the Eastern Caribbean colonies — Barbados, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Windward Islands — replacing a patchwork of separate colonial issues. The Board's coinage was a deliberate administrative convenience, meant to outlast any individual territory's political status. It very nearly didn't: several member territories began withdrawing as early as 1958 following the short-lived West Indies Federation.
By 1965, the series was discontinued as successor institutions took over. The East Caribbean Currency Authority replaced the Board the following year.