5 Dollars Trident

Barbados adopted the trident dollar as its currency unit at independence in 1966, pegging it to the US dollar at a fixed rate of 2:1 — a peg that has held without interruption for over five decades, one of the longest-running fixed exchange arrangements in the Caribbean. The Central Bank has leaned into that stability when marketing bullion issues, and this 2021 one-troy-ounce gold piece is part of a series designed explicitly to compete with the Maple Leaf and Britannia in the international bullion market.

.9999 fineness rather than the older .9167 gold standard reflects that competitive ambition.