The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank issues this series under a longstanding arrangement that allows individual member territories — Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines — to commission distinct numismatic releases while sharing a single currency union, itself established in 1983. The torch ginger lily (Etlingera elatior), native across the humid interiors of several OECS islands, has been a recurring motif in Eastern Caribbean coinage.
This is a bullion-adjacent issue: one troy ounce of .9999 fine gold at a nominal $10 face value, a denomination bearing no relation to intrinsic worth.
The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank issues this series under a longstanding arrangement that allows individual member territories — Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines — to commission distinct numismatic releases while sharing a single currency union, itself established in 1983. The torch ginger lily (Etlingera elatior), native across the humid interiors of several OECS islands, has been a recurring motif in Eastern Caribbean coinage.
This is a bullion-adjacent issue: one troy ounce of .9999 fine gold at a nominal $10 face value, a denomination bearing no relation to intrinsic worth.