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25 Dollars Crystal Water
| Issuer | Barbados |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The complete coat of arms of Barbados is rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. The central shield, charged with a bearded fig tree and two Pride of Barbados flowers, is supported on the dexter side by a dolphin and on the sinister side by a pelican. Above the shield rests a closed helmet with mantling, surmounted by a hand grasping two crossed sugarcane stalks. A scroll below the shield bears the national motto legend PRIDE AND INDUSTRY, with the country name BARBADOS arching above and the denomination 25 DOLLARS inscribed below. |
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| Obverse lettering | BARBADOS PRIDE AND INDUSTRY 25 DOLLARS |
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Barbados has issued large-format silver pieces under various licensing arrangements since the 1970s, but the Crystal Water series belongs to a wave of ultra-high-relief, colorized collector issues that flooded the market in the 2010s — produced primarily to satisfy a European and Asian collector base with little connection to the issuing nation. The nominal face value of 25 Barbadian dollars bears no relationship to the silver content or retail price, a legal fiction that grants the piece official tender status under Barbadian law while the coin never circulates domestically.
The kilosilver format was largely standardized by the Perth Mint and then widely imitated by private minting operations working under agreements with smaller sovereign issuers.