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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Year | 1974-1975 |
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| Weight | 30 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1974 FM - Matte - 3,632 1975 FM - Matte - 125 1975 FM - Special Uncirculated - 1,111 |
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Trinidad and Tobago gained full independence in 1962 but retained British coinage conventions for over a decade. The Central Bank, established in 1964, began issuing its own decimal currency series through the early 1970s, with these larger-denomination copper-nickel pieces introduced as the country's oil revenues were beginning their dramatic climb ahead of the 1973 OPEC price shock. The timing placed this coin at the threshold of a period when Trinidad and Tobago would briefly become one of the wealthier nations in the Western Hemisphere on a per-capita basis.
The two-year production window — 1974 and 1975 — was not extended, likely because circulating ten-dollar coins proved impractical at that size and weight.