Catalog
1 Dollar Trident
| Issuer | Central Bank of Barbados |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Reverse description | A large, stylised trident rendered in bold relief dominates the central field, its three-pronged head rising prominently above a shaft set against a striated, sunburst-patterned background suggestive of radiating waves. The trident is enclosed within a raised inner circle, with the denomination ONE DOLLAR inscribed in large letters along the lower arc. The legend .999 FINE SILVER appears along the left inner border and ONE TROY OUNCE along the right inner border, both reading upward. A beaded border frames the entire reverse composition. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Barbados adopted the trident dollar as its national currency in 1973, two years after independence from Britain, deliberately severing the Eastern Caribbean dollar arrangement to establish a fully domestic monetary system pegged at two Barbadian dollars to one US dollar — a rate that has held without devaluation for over five decades. The 2020 silver bullion issue draws on that founding moment rather than any commemorative pretext.
KM#141 is part of a recurring bullion program, not a one-time release. The .999 fine specification places it outside the older .925 standard used in Barbadian collector coinage of the 1970s and 1980s.