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5 Dollars Trident
| Issuer | Central Bank of Barbados |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Composition | Gold (.9999) |
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| Reverse description | A bold, stylized trident — the national symbol of Barbados — is depicted centrally and dominates the field, rendered in high relief against a finely engraved guilloche wave pattern background. The denomination FIVE DOLLARS is inscribed along the lower arc of the inner border, while the legend .9999 FINE GOLD curves along the left inner border and ONE TROY OUNCE along the right inner border. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded inner border, consistent with the obverse treatment. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Barbados adopted the trident as a national symbol at independence in 1966, breaking it away from the British colonial "broken trident" imagery in a deliberate act of symbolic completion. This gold issue was struck by the Royal Canadian Mint under contract, which accounts for the .9999 fineness — a standard the RCM has pushed aggressively in its bullion programs since the late 1970s. The Central Bank of Barbados has issued relatively few gold pieces in its history, making individual releases genuinely scarce by Caribbean sovereign mint standards.