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10 Dollars Marcus Garvey
| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | The Jamaican coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a quartered shield charged with five pineapples, supported on the dexter by a female Taino figure holding a basket of fruit and on the sinister by a male Taino figure bearing a bow, with a crocodile passant atop a royal helmet and mantling as crest. A scroll beneath the shield bears the national motto in the legend. The country name JAMAICA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination TEN DOLLARS and the date 1987 appear along the lower periphery, all set against a deeply mirrored proof field with a beaded border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Marcus Garvey was declared Jamaica's first National Hero in 1964, but it took another two decades before he appeared on a bullion-quality commemorative issue. The 1987 silver ten-dollar was part of Jamaica's broader push through the 1980s to produce collector coinage for foreign exchange revenue — a hard-currency strategy common among Caribbean nations navigating IMF structural adjustment pressures during that period.
Garvey died in London in 1940, largely forgotten by the mainstream press, having never set foot in Africa despite founding the Universal Negro Improvement Association's Back-to-Africa movement from Harlem.