Catalogus
Volledige afbeeldingen bekijken — gratis registratie
Doorgaan met Google — het is gratis
of registreer met e-mail
Waarom registreren? Alleen om bots buiten ons catalogus te houden. Uw e-mail blijft privé — we delen het nooit en sturen u niets zonder uw toestemming. Dat garanderen wij u!
5 Cents - Elizabeth II 1st portrait
| Uitgever | Eastern Caribbean States |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1955-1965 |
| Type | Log in om details te zien |
| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Gewicht | 5 g |
| Diameter | Log in om details te zien |
| Dikte | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Techniek | Log in om details te zien |
| Oriëntatie | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, modelled by Cecil Thomas, wearing the St. Edward's Crown. The portrait presents the Queen with a bare neck and loosely draped shoulders, with finely detailed hair. The circumferential legend QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND arcs around the obverse field, with the engraver's initials CT appearing below the truncation. A dentilated border frames the design. |
|---|---|
| Schrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift voorzijde | QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND CT |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Schrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Rand | Log in om details te zien |
| Muntplaats | Log in om details te zien |
| Oplage | Log in om details te zien |
| Aanvullende informatie |
The Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority was established in 1950 to serve the British West Indies territories that lacked individual central banks, and these early issues circulated across a patchwork of colonies — Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and others — all sharing a single coinage. The arrangement was administratively tidy but politically complicated, as several of these territories were simultaneously negotiating the terms of the short-lived West Indies Federation, which collapsed in 1962.
Nickel brass was chosen partly for its resistance to the corrosive salt-air environment of the Caribbean, a practical consideration that had plagued earlier copper issues in the region.