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10 Cents - Elizabeth II 1st portrait
| Issuer | British Caribbean Currency Board |
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| Year | 1955-1965 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Thomas Humphrey Paget Reverse: Cecil Thomas |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1955 - - 5,000,000 1955 - Proof - 2,000 1956 - - 4,000,000 1956 - Proof - 1959 - - 2,000,000 1959 - Proof - 1961 - - 1,260,000 1961 - Proof - 1962 - - 1,200,000 1962 - Proof - 1964 - - 1,400,000 1965 - - 3,200,000 1965 - Proof - 1965 - Prooflike - |
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The British Caribbean Currency Board was established in 1950 to provide a unified currency across the British West Indies territories — Barbados, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Windward Islands. The arrangement was always understood as provisional, and the decade this coin spans saw its member territories move rapidly toward independence. Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago both left the federation by 1962.
Mary Gillick's portrait, used here, was the first effigy of Elizabeth II to appear on circulating coinage anywhere in the Commonwealth, adopted from 1953.