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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Inaugural Test Match Cricket
| Issuer | Eastern Caribbean Central Bank |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the George IV State Diadem and a pearl necklace, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. The peripheral legend reads ELIZABETH II to the upper left and EAST CARIBBEAN STATES to the right, with the denomination TEN DOLLARS inscribed along the lower border. Two raised pellets serve as separators flanking the base of the effigy. The portrait reflects the fourth definitive effigy of the Queen as used on Commonwealth coinage during this period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank issued this piece to mark the first-ever Test cricket match played on the islands, a milestone for West Indian cricket at the domestic level. Test status for a home ground in the Eastern Caribbean came decades after the West Indies team itself had been competing internationally — the region's cricketers had long played their home Tests on the major grounds of Barbados, Trinidad, Antigua, and Jamaica rather than on the smaller islands.
Schön records only a handful of commemorative silver issues from the ECCB in the 1990s, making this among the more obscure entries in that short series.