10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Silver Issue

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.