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1 Dollar Flying Fish

Issuer Central Bank of Barbados
Year 2019
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Weight 31.1 g
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Obverse script Latin
Obverse lettering BARBADOS 2019 ONE DOLLAR
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Barbados has featured the flying fish on its coinage since decimalization in 1973, making it one of the most enduring national symbols in Caribbean numismatics — but the shift to bullion-format silver strikes in recent decades reflects the island's deliberate cultivation of a collector market rather than any change in monetary policy. The flying fish itself is so central to Barbadian identity that it became a point of diplomatic friction in the early 2000s, when a dispute with Trinidad over fishing rights in contested waters briefly escalated into what regional press dubbed the "flying fish war."

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