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25 Cents 100 Years of Walt Disney - Mickey Mouse
| Issuer | Central Bank of Barbados |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Technique | Colored, Milled |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the national coat of arms of Barbados centrally positioned in the field, depicting a quartered shield supported by a dolphin on the left and a pelican on the right, surmounted by an arm holding two crossed sugarcane stalks. A ribbon scroll below the shield bears the national motto PRIDE AND INDUSTRY. The legend BARBADOS 2023 arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 25 CENTS appears in the lower field. The entire design is rendered on a gold-plated mirror field. |
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| Obverse lettering | BARBADOS 2023 PRIDE AND INDUSTRY 25 CENTS |
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Disney's licensing of its IP for foreign legal tender issues has been a reliable revenue stream since the 1980s, but Barbados has been a particularly active partner — the Central Bank has issued collectible commemoratives on a scale well out of proportion to the island's population of roughly 280,000. This piece marks a century since Mickey's screen debut in *Steamboat Willie*, the 1928 short that also happened to be one of the first synchronized sound cartoons, a technical milestone that explains why the character survived when other silent-era animated figures did not.
The KM#388a suffix indicates the gold-plated variant, distinguished from the standard cupro-nickel strike catalogued separately.