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100 Dollars Marcus Garvey
| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1969-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays the full Jamaican coat of arms at centre, featuring a quartered shield charged with five golden pineapples, surmounted by a crocodile passant atop a royal helm and mantling. Two Taino figures serve as supporters on either side, the dexter figure bearing a basket of fruit and the sinister holding a bow and arrow. The national motto OUT OF MANY, ONE PEOPLE appears on a scroll beneath the shield. The legend JAMAICA arcs along the upper rim, the denomination ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS is inscribed vertically in the left and right fields respectively, and the date 1987 appears in the lower field below the coat of arms. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Issued to commemorate Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican-born Black nationalist whose Universal Negro Improvement Association claimed four million members at its peak in the early 1920s. Garvey was deported from the United States in 1927 following a mail fraud conviction widely regarded — then and since — as politically motivated. Jamaica declared him a National Hero in 1964, the first to receive that designation.
The .900 fine gold specification follows the same alloy standard used for U.S. gold coinage prior to 1933, a deliberate nod to international bullion convention rather than any domestic tradition.