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| Issuer | Belize (1973-date) |
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| Year | 1973-1976 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1885-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem and draped at the shoulder, after the portrait by Arnold Machin. The circumferential legend reads QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND, distributed around the scalloped border of the flan. The effigy is rendered in high relief against a flat field, with fine detail in the hair and crown. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Belize's 1973 coinage debut followed directly from the country's renaming that same year — formerly British Honduras, the transition to Belize was a political assertion of identity ahead of full independence, which wouldn't arrive until 1981. The cent series issued in these transitional years was produced at the Royal Mint, retaining the colonial infrastructure even as the nomenclature changed beneath it.