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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Humpback Whale
| Issuer | Eastern Caribbean Central Bank |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Currency | East Caribbean Dollar (1965-date) |
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| Obverse description | Diademed effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, set within an open laurel wreath at center field. The portrait is rendered in high relief with fine detail to the hair and diadem. The circular legend around the dark outer band reads EASTERN CARIBBEAN CENTRAL BANK at top, TEN DOLLARS at right, QUEEN ELIZABETH II at bottom, and 1 OZ .9999 GOLD at left. |
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| Reverse script | Latin (cursive) |
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The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank issues currency on behalf of eight member states — Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Anguilla — making attribution of any single ECCB coin to a specific territory effectively meaningless. This piece carries a nominal face value of ten Eastern Caribbean dollars against a gold melt value several hundred times that figure, which places it firmly in the bullion-commemorative category rather than any plausible circulation role.
Humpback whales make seasonal migrations through Eastern Caribbean waters, historically documented by whalers operating out of Bequia in Saint Vincent — one of the last communities granted an aboriginal subsistence whaling quota by the IWC.