Catalog
10 Cents
| Issuer | Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Year | 1976-2017 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TOGETHER WE ASPIRE TOGETHER WE ACHIEVE FM 1976 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Trinidad and Tobago gained full independence from Britain in 1962, but the Central Bank wasn't established until 1964 and didn't issue its own decimal coinage until 1976 — replacing a transitional series that still carried colonial design DNA. The 1976 issue marked the first fully sovereign decimal coinage for the twin-island republic.
The extraordinarily long production run across four decades reflects chronic under-replacement rather than deliberate planning. Coins from the 1970s and 1980s turn up in circulation worn nearly smooth alongside near-mint examples from the 2010s.