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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Sir Douglas Haig
| Issuer | Eastern Caribbean Central Bank |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1965-date) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Milled |
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This piece belongs to a commemorative series issued by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank honoring figures from the First World War. Sir Douglas Haig commanded British and Imperial forces on the Western Front from late 1915 through the Armistice — a tenure that included the catastrophic first day of the Somme on July 1, 1916, when British forces suffered nearly 57,000 casualties in a single day, the bloodiest in the British Army's history. His reputation has never fully recovered among historians.
The gold plating on copper-nickel was a common cost-reduction choice for commemorative issues of this period targeting the collector market rather than circulation.