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10 Dollars Atlantic blue marlin, silver
| Issuer | Jamaica |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1969-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1984 - Proof - 335 |
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Jamaica's fishing tournament circuit, particularly the annual Blue Marlin Tournament run out of Port Antonio, gave these issues genuine local resonance beyond the usual wildlife commemorative formula. The 1984 date places this squarely in the period when Jamaica was deep in IMF structural adjustment negotiations — hard currency was leaving the island faster than it arrived, and silver commemoratives like this one were produced almost entirely for the export collector market rather than domestic circulation.
KM#114a distinguishes the silver version from the copper-nickel 114, both struck in the same year for different markets.