10 Cents - Elizabeth II 1st portrait

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.