Catalog
10 Cents Magnetic
| Issuer | Central Bank of Barbados |
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| Year | 2007-2022 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A Laughing Gull rendered in fine detail in full flight, wings outstretched and facing left, occupying the upper and central field of the coin. The bird's open beak, fanned tail feathers, and extended wing primaries are crisply engraved. The designer's initials PN appear in small characters beneath the bird's body. The denomination legend TEN CENTS curves along the lower portion of the field within a beaded border. |
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Barbados switched from cupronickel to nickel-plated steel for this denomination as part of a broader regional cost-cutting trend that followed the spike in base metal prices during the mid-2000s commodity boom. The reformulation, catalogued as KM#12a to distinguish it from the original KM#12, is magnetic — the easiest field test for separating the two otherwise visually identical types.