The Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority was replaced by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in 1983, meaning coins struck between 1981 and 1982 under this KM#12 type predate the issuing body whose name they would eventually carry. The ECCB serves eight territories simultaneously — Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Anguilla — making it one of the few currency unions in the world to span entirely sovereign and non-sovereign territories within the same monetary arrangement.
The Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority was replaced by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in 1983, meaning coins struck between 1981 and 1982 under this KM#12 type predate the issuing body whose name they would eventually carry. The ECCB serves eight territories simultaneously — Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Anguilla — making it one of the few currency unions in the world to span entirely sovereign and non-sovereign territories within the same monetary arrangement.