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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Robert Clive
| Issuer | Eastern Caribbean Central Bank |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Composition | Gold plated copper-nickel |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Three-quarter length portrait of Robert Clive in 18th-century military dress coat adorned with a star medal, facing slightly left, occupying the left portion of the field. The background features a richly detailed battle scene depicting infantry soldiers, cavalry charges, and artillery pieces amid trees, evoking the campaigns of British India. The legend ROBERT CLIVE arcs along the lower left rim, followed by the life dates 1725-1774 continuing along the lower right. The composition is engraved by Willem Vis in a high-relief pictorial style. |
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Robert Clive's connection to the Eastern Caribbean is essentially nonexistent — he made his name in Bengal, not the West Indies. This coin belongs to a class of collector-targeted commemoratives issued by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in the early 2000s that had little to do with regional history and everything to do with licensing recognizable British imperial figures for export sales. The ECCB issued a substantial run of such pieces under Elizabeth II authority.
Clive died in 1774, almost certainly by his own hand, following a parliamentary inquiry into his conduct in India.