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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Rum Runner, Colourised
| Issuer | Eastern Caribbean Central Bank |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1965-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A colourised scene depicting a traditional sailing vessel navigating Caribbean waters, with wooden barrels of rum prominently displayed in the foreground along a shoreline, evoking the historical rum-running trade of the Eastern Caribbean. The upper portion of the reverse bears the issuing territory legend ANTIGUA & BARBUDA, and the year of issue 2018 appears below, both rendered in raised Latin lettering against the coin's polished field. |
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The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank's "Rum Runner" issue belongs to a gold collector series commemorating the illicit liquor trade that flourished across Caribbean waters during American Prohibition, roughly 1920–1933. Small, fast vessels out of islands like St. Pierre and the Bahamas supplied a coastal black market worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually, with rum the dominant cargo.
KM#9.1 distinguishes this as the colourised variant within the type — applied colour on gold collector issues remains controversial among purists, though it commands consistent premiums in the secondary market for this particular series.