The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank's numismatic program has leaned heavily into regional maritime history, and the rum runner theme draws on a genuine smuggling tradition that thrived across the Lesser Antilles well into the twentieth century — particularly during U.S. Prohibition, when demand for Caribbean rum created a profitable black-market trade route north through the Bahamas and Florida. KM#18.1 designates this as a colourized variant within a broader release, a distinction that matters for registry sets where the two versions are tracked separately.
The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank's numismatic program has leaned heavily into regional maritime history, and the rum runner theme draws on a genuine smuggling tradition that thrived across the Lesser Antilles well into the twentieth century — particularly during U.S. Prohibition, when demand for Caribbean rum created a profitable black-market trade route north through the Bahamas and Florida. KM#18.1 designates this as a colourized variant within a broader release, a distinction that matters for registry sets where the two versions are tracked separately.