25 Cents Blue-Crowned Motmot, Copper-Nickel

Belize gained independence from Britain in 1981, but this series began circulating six years earlier when the country was still British Honduras — a colonial name dropped precisely because it privileged the adjacent Honduran republic in international correspondence. The Central Bank itself was established only in 1982, meaning the issuing authority named on these coins did not technically exist for much of the series run. That administrative curiosity makes the earlier dates worth distinguishing from the final 1981 strikes.