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1 Dollar Magnetic
| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 1993-1994 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The Jamaican coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring a quartered shield charged with five pineapples, supported on the dexter side by a female Taino figure holding a basket of fruit and on the sinister side by a male Taino figure bearing a bow. Above the shield rests a Jamaican crocodile atop a royal helm and mantling. A scroll beneath the supporters bears the national motto in the legend. The country name JAMAICA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination ONE DOLLAR and the date appear along the lower periphery. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Jamaica transitioned its dollar coinage to brass-plated steel in the early 1990s as part of a broader cost-reduction program responding to chronic foreign exchange shortages that made importing raw copper and nickel prohibitively expensive. The magnetic variant — KM#145a — runs parallel to the non-magnetic brass version, the two distinguished only by a pocket magnet. Most dealers still conflate them.