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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II Disabled Persons, Piedfort
| Issuer | Eastern Caribbean Central Bank |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | The youthful, diademed effigy of Queen Elizabeth II faces right, modelled by Arnold Machin, with the hair elegantly coiffed and adorned with a tiara; the truncation of the bust is draped. The surrounding legend reads EAST CARIBBEAN STATES to the left and QUEEN ELIZABETH II to the right, all rendered against a deeply mirrored proof field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority became the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in 1983, making this 1981 issue one of the final commemoratives struck under the preceding institutional framework. The piedfort format — double the standard planchet thickness — was rarely employed by Caribbean issuing authorities, and this example appears to be the only piedfort in the entire ECCB series. It was struck to mark the United Nations International Year of Disabled Persons, a global initiative that generated commemorative coinage from dozens of issuing states in 1981.