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5 Dollars Louis Armstrong

Issuer Central Bank of Barbados
Year 2021
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Composition Silver (.999)
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Obverse lettering BARBADOS
PRIDE AND INDUSTRY
1 oz
5 DOLLARS
Ag .999
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Edge Reeded
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Additional information

Armstrong visited Barbados at least once during his extensive Caribbean touring in the postwar decades, but this coin's claim on him is thinner than biographical — it's part of a broader wave of licensed celebrity issues produced for the collector market, struck by private minting houses under agreements with small issuing authorities whose central banks lend legal-tender status in exchange for seigniorage revenue. Barbados has issued dozens of such pieces.

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