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1 Dollar Mayan king
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | · BELIZE · SUB UMBRA FLOREO 1 DOLLAR (Translation: I flourish in the shade.) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Belize issued a series of silver dollars through the late 1990s and early 2000s commemorating pre-Columbian civilizations, with this piece falling within that program. The Maya occupied what is now Belize continuously from roughly 1500 BC, with major centers including Caracol and Lamanai — the latter remaining inhabited well into the Spanish colonial period, unusually late for a lowland Maya site.
KM#134 was struck at the British Royal Mint under contract, consistent with Belize's coinage arrangements at the time.