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5 Dollars Louis Armstrong
| Issuer | Central Bank of Barbados |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Diameter | 38.61 mm |
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| Reverse description | A bold, realistically rendered portrait of jazz legend Louis Armstrong dominates the reverse field, depicted in profile or three-quarter view while playing his trumpet, capturing his iconic performance stance. Smaller figures of supporting musicians are rendered in lower relief in the background, evoking a lively jazz ensemble scene. The subject's name appears as the principal legend, accompanied by his birth and death years below. The issue year is inscribed within the design, and a fine silver purity legend is present in the lower field. |
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| Mint | B. H. Mayer Kunstprageanstalt, Karlsfeld, Germany (1999-date) |
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Armstrong visited Barbados at least once during his extensive Caribbean touring in the postwar decades, but this coin's claim on him is thinner than biographical — it's part of a broader wave of licensed celebrity issues produced for the collector market, struck by private minting houses under agreements with small issuing authorities whose central banks lend legal-tender status in exchange for seigniorage revenue. Barbados has issued dozens of such pieces.