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10 Dollars Scalloped

Issuer Bank of Jamaica
Year 1999-2005
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Currency Dollar (1969-date)
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Plain
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Jamaica's scalloped ten-dollar coin was introduced as part of a broader rationalisation of the island's coinage following chronic inflation that had rendered lower denominations essentially worthless through the 1990s. The Bank of Jamaica leaned on distinctive shapes as a practical accessibility measure — the scalloped edge allowing visually impaired users to distinguish denominations by touch alone, a design philosophy borrowed from several Commonwealth currency reforms of the same decade.

KM#181 is occasionally found with uneven nickel plating adhesion on early strikes, a quality control issue tied to the contracted production run rather than the Jamaica mint itself.