250 Dollars Decade for Women

Issued to mark the United Nations Decade for Women (1976–1985), this piece was part of a broader wave of commemorative gold struck by Caribbean central banks during the early 1980s — a period when many smaller issuers were producing limited gold coinage primarily for collector export rather than domestic circulation. Jamaica's participation aligned with its active engagement in UN initiatives during the Manley and early Seaga administrations, though by 1984 the island was deep in an IMF austerity program that made domestic gold coin ownership largely academic.