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10 Dollars Year of the Worker, copper-nickel
| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The full Jamaican coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring a quartered shield charged with five golden pineapples, surmounted by a Jamaican crocodile atop a royal helm and mantling. Two Taíno figures serve as supporters on either side of the shield, with the national motto scroll inscribed OUT OF MANY, ONE PEOPLE below. The legend JAMAICA arcs along the upper periphery, while TEN DOLLARS and the date 1988 are inscribed in large characters along the lower portion of the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | THE YEAR OF THE WORKERS 1988 CORNERSTONE OF DEVELOPMENT |
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Jamaica's "Year of the Worker" dollar was issued in 1988 to commemorate the International Labour Organisation's ongoing campaign recognizing labor rights across developing nations. The timing was deliberate — Jamaica's economy was under severe strain from IMF structural adjustment programs throughout the 1980s, and the government was eager to signal solidarity with its workforce even as public sector wages were being compressed.
Relatively few of these circulated in the conventional sense; most were absorbed by collectors at point of issue.