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1 Dollar Saint John
| Issuer | United States Virgin Islands › United States Virgin Islands (1917-date) |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Thickness | 2.2 mm |
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| Reverse description | Two Carib indigenous figures are depicted standing near water in the central field, one adorned with a feathered headdress and holding a long pole or spear, the other partially seated or crouching beside a canoe. The scene evokes the pre-colonial native inhabitants of the Virgin Islands. The legend 'Caribs' appears in the upper left field, and the denomination 'ONE DOLLAR' is inscribed along the lower rim in bold letters. The engraver's initials 'ВБ' (Cyrillic monogram of Vitaly Bakhtinov) are visible in the lower central field beneath the denomination. |
| Reverse script | Latin/Cyrillic |
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The U.S. Virgin Islands issues collector dollars under a territorial framework that allows locally themed coinage without Federal Reserve involvement — a legislative gap that has produced dozens of these silver-plated issues since the early 2000s. Saint John, the smallest of the three main islands, was the site of a major slave rebellion in 1733, when enslaved Africans of Akwamu origin seized control of the island for nearly a year before Danish colonial forces, aided by French troops from Martinique, suppressed it.