10 Dollars Marcus Garvey

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.