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1 Dollar Flamingo, Gold Proof issue
| Issuer | Barbados |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The national Coat of Arms of Barbados occupies the central field, featuring a shield charged with two yellow bearded fig trees and three pride-of-Barbados flowers, supported on the dexter side by a dolphin and on the sinister side by a pelican. Above the shield rests a helmet with mantling and a hand holding two crossed sugar cane stalks as a crest, with the motto scroll below reading PRIDE AND INDUSTRY. The legend BARBADOS arcs along the upper periphery, flanked by a dotted inner border, while the date 2017 appears at the base between two raised dots. The gold fineness notation Au 585 is inscribed to the lower left of the arms, and the weight 0,5 g to the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | BARBADOS Au 585 0,5 g · 2017 · |
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Barbados has issued the flamingo dollar continuously since 1973, making it one of the longest-running wildlife coin designs in the Caribbean. This miniature gold proof belongs to a category of fractional issues that proliferated sharply after 2010, when several Commonwealth mints began targeting the collector gift market with sub-gram gold pieces — low enough in precious metal content to retail at accessible price points without qualifying as serious bullion.
The .585 fineness is 14-karat, uncommonly low for modern proof gold coinage, where .9999 is now the dominant standard.