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25 Cents - Elizabeth II 4th portrait
| Issuer | Eastern Caribbean Central Bank |
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| Year | 2002-2007 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Fourth portrait effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, rendered in fine detail with curled hair. The engraver's initials IRB appear on the truncation of the neck. The circumferential legend QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND runs clockwise around the rim, with the lettering evenly spaced against a flat field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, established in 1983, issues coinage on behalf of eight member territories simultaneously — meaning a single coin circulates as legal tender across Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The fourth portrait of Elizabeth II, sculpted by Ian Rank-Broadley and adopted by most Commonwealth territories around 1998, reached the ECCB series slightly later than many other issuers.
Production volumes for this type were divided among the needs of eight separate governments, keeping individual-territory attribution essentially impossible from the coin itself.