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10 Dollars Caribbean Development Bank
| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a central globe rendered in relief, showing the Caribbean island chain in geographic detail, with tropical foliage and fruit depicted below the globe. The circular legend 'CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK' arcs around the upper portion of the central design. The founding year '1970' appears at the lower left and the anniversary year '1980' at the lower right of the outer legend, flanking the words 'TENTH ANNIVERSARY' across the top. The denomination '10 DOLLARS' is inscribed along the lower periphery in bold raised letters, all enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Mintage | 1980 FM - Proof - 2,327 |
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The Caribbean Development Bank, headquartered in Barbados, was established in 1970 at the urging of Canadian officials who saw regional multilateral lending as a counterweight to American financial dominance in the Caribbean. Jamaica was a founding member. This coin was struck to mark the bank's tenth anniversary — a common occasion for commemorative issues from Commonwealth Caribbean mints in the early 1980s, when silver commemoratives were a meaningful source of hard currency revenue for small island economies.
The .500 fineness places it squarely in Jamaica's commemorative silver output of this period, which consistently used half-silver rather than the .925 standard favored by other issuers.