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50 Cents - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Year | 1973-1976 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The national Coat of Arms of Trinidad and Tobago occupies the central field, featuring a shield divided by a chevron and charged with sailing ships, supported on the dexter by a scarlet ibis and on the sinister by a cocrico, both standing on a grassy mound. Above the shield rises a helmet surmounted by a ship's wheel encircled by a palm tree, flanked by floral mantling. A scroll at the base of the achievement bears the national motto in two parts: TOGETHER WE ASPIRE on the left and TOGETHER WE ACHIEVE on the right. The legend TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO arcs along the upper periphery, and the date appears prominently in the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TOGETHER WE ASPIRE TOGETHER WE ACHIEVE FM 1975 |
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Trinidad and Tobago gained independence in 1962 but retained British colonial coinage until a full decimal currency system was introduced in 1964, when the Central Bank issued its first domestic series. This 50-cent type debuted with that reform and continued through the mid-1970s largely unchanged — a period when the country's economy was being transformed by the first oil shock of 1973, which turned Trinidad into one of the Caribbean's wealthiest states almost overnight.
The window of 1973–1976 captures exactly that transitional moment before petroleum revenues prompted a broader rethinking of the currency's design vocabulary.