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1 Penny - Elizabeth II Arms with supporters
| Issuer | Jamaica |
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| Year | 1964-1967 |
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| Thickness | 1.86 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The full Jamaican coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring a quartered shield bearing five golden pineapples and a red cross with golden roundels, surmounted by a Jamaican crocodile atop a royal helmet and mantling. The shield is supported on the left by a female Taíno figure holding a basket of fruit and on the right by a male Taíno figure bearing a spear and shield. A scroll at the base bears the national motto OUT OF MANY ONE PEOPLE. The legend JAMAICA arcs across the top field and ONE PENNY with the date appears around the lower periphery, all within a beaded border. |
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Jamaica gained independence in August 1962, but the first decimal coinage series wasn't introduced until 1969. These pennies belong to the transitional period — pre-decimal issues struck for an independent Jamaica that had retained the old £sd structure inherited from the colonial period. The new national arms replaced the colonial reverse almost immediately after independence, making KM#39 the first coinage to carry that imagery under a sovereign Jamaican government rather than a British Crown colony.
Production ran only four years before decimalization rendered the denomination obsolete.