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10 Dollars Pelican
| Issuer | Barbados |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1973-date) |
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| Obverse description | The national coat of arms of Barbados is rendered in high relief at the centre of the field, featuring a shield quartered with two Pride of Barbados flowers and a bearded fig tree, supported by a dolphin (fish) on the dexter side and a pelican on the sinister side, surmounted by a helmet bearing a hand grasping two crossed sugar cane stalks. A scroll below the shield bears the national motto PRIDE AND INDUSTRY. The legend BARBADOS arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 10 DOLLARS is inscribed along the lower periphery, with the specifications 1oz to the lower left and Au 999 to the lower right. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Barbados has issued bullion and collector gold in its own name since the 1970s, but the Pelican series belongs to a wave of Eastern Caribbean wildlife coinage that accelerated sharply after the Royal Mint and Perth Mint began competing aggressively for small-nation licensing contracts in the late 2010s. The brown pelican is Barbados's national bird, declared so in 1966 at independence.
One troy ounce at .999 fineness places this squarely in the modern bullion tier, not the numismatic one.