The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank issues commemorative collector pieces outside its regular circulation mandate, and this shipwreck series draws on the genuinely wreck-dense waters of the Lesser Antilles — a region where Spanish treasure fleets, colonial merchant vessels, and hurricane seasons combined for centuries to produce one of the highest concentrations of documented wrecks in the Atlantic world. The application of selective color to silver is a post-mint printing process, and KM#13.1 distinguishes this variant from the uncolored strike sharing the same dies.
The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank issues commemorative collector pieces outside its regular circulation mandate, and this shipwreck series draws on the genuinely wreck-dense waters of the Lesser Antilles — a region where Spanish treasure fleets, colonial merchant vessels, and hurricane seasons combined for centuries to produce one of the highest concentrations of documented wrecks in the Atlantic world. The application of selective color to silver is a post-mint printing process, and KM#13.1 distinguishes this variant from the uncolored strike sharing the same dies.