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10 Dollars Carrack
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Diameter | 38.61 mm |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Belize is depicted centrally, supported by two human figures flanking a quartered shield surmounted by a mahogany tree; the motto ribbon below bears the legend SUB UMBRA FLOREO. The arms are framed by an ornamental wreath of olive branches extending from lower left to lower right. The country name BELIZE arcs along the upper field in bold raised letters, and the date 1995 appears in the lower field. A beaded circle runs along the inner rim. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Belize issued a sustained series of silver commemoratives through the 1990s targeting the collector market, with the carrack theme drawing on the broader Caribbean basin's Spanish colonial maritime history rather than anything specific to British Honduras or Belizean territorial waters. The carrack — a deep-hulled merchant vessel dominant in Atlantic trade from roughly the 14th through 16th centuries — had no particular connection to Belize's own colonial settlement, which came later and under English logwood-cutting operations.
KM#124 was struck at the Royal Mint to the standard 28.28g/.925 specification shared across dozens of Commonwealth commemorative programs of the period.