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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Silver Issue
| Issuer | Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Year | 1973-1975 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1964-date) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 1973 FM - Matte - 1,700 1973 FM - Proof - 24,000 1973 FM - Special Uncirculated - 1974 FM - Proof - 21,000 1975 FM - Proof - 28,000 |
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Trinidad and Tobago gained independence from Britain in 1962, but the silver collector issues of the early 1970s arrived during a more consequential transition: the country's shift to a republic in 1976, which ended formal ties to the Crown. These pieces were struck while Elizabeth II remained head of state — barely. The Central Bank had been established only in 1964, and commissioning a prestige silver series was a deliberate assertion of institutional maturity for a young currency authority.
KM#24a is the sterling silver variant, distinguished from the copper-nickel circulation strike of the same denomination issued concurrently.