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500 Dollars Columbus Quincentennial
| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 500 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | · 1494 JAMAICA 1994 · 500 COLUMBUS QUINCENTENNIAL |
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Issued to mark the 500th anniversary of Columbus's 1492 landfall, this coin was struck at a politically awkward moment for Jamaica — by 1992, quincentennial commemorations across the Caribbean were generating serious pushback from indigenous advocacy groups and historians who objected to framing the voyage as a "discovery." Jamaica proceeded with the issue regardless, making it a minor artifact of that broader cultural argument.