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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Royal Visit
| Issuer | Cayman Islands |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust of Queen Elizabeth II wearing a tiara, rendered in the Arnold Machin portrait style. The legend CAYMAN ISLANDS arcs along the left periphery and ELIZABETH II along the right periphery. The date 1983 appears in the lower exergue. The portrait is finely detailed, with the Queen's hair swept up beneath the tiara and a bare shoulder visible at the bust truncation. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Cayman Islands issued several commemorative silver pieces tied to royal visits, and this 1983 ten-dollar coin marks Queen Elizabeth II's tour of the Caribbean that year as part of a broader Commonwealth itinerary. The islands had only adopted the Cayman dollar in 1972, replacing the Jamaican dollar, and commemorative issues like this one were a deliberate tool for building an independent monetary identity in the decade that followed.