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10 Dollars George Rodney, silver proof
| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 1977 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A bold draped bust of Admiral George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, faces right in high relief, depicted in 18th-century British naval uniform with epaulettes and a decorative order badge at the truncation. His wig-dressed hair is rendered in fine detail. To the right in the middle field, a fully rigged Royal Navy ship of the line is depicted under sail on a stylised sea, rendered in lower relief as a secondary vignette. The curved legend ADMIRAL GEORGE RODNEY arcs along the upper periphery in raised Latin lettering against the mirror-polished proof field. |
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Admiral George Rodney's connection to Jamaica runs deeper than honorific — he was based at Port Royal and used the island as a staging ground for the 1782 Battle of the Saints, where his fleet broke the French line in a maneuver that effectively ended French ambitions in the Caribbean and secured British dominance of the region for decades. Jamaica issued this proof series in 1977 as part of a broader Commonwealth silver commemorative program that proliferated heavily in the late 1970s, when many Caribbean nations were monetizing their newly independent status through collector coinage rather than circulation strikes.