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5 Dollars Roger Sherman
| Issuer | Central Bank of Barbados |
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Weight | 31.1 g |
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| Obverse description | A detailed facade view of George Washington House in Barbados occupies the centre of the field, rendered with fine architectural detail including its colonnaded entrance, shuttered windows, and hipped roof. The background features a radiating pattern of large five-pointed stars, evoking an American patriotic theme. A circular cartouche below the building displays the coat of arms of Barbados flanked by the inscriptions BARBADOS 2026 above and 5 DOLLARS Ag 999 below. The rim is adorned with a continuous laurel wreath border, and the legend GEORGE WASHINGTON HOUSE BARBADOS appears along the lower rim. |
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| Reverse description | A large forward-facing bust portrait of Roger Sherman, Founding Father and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, dominates the central field. To his left, the opening words of the United States Constitution — We the People — are rendered in script on a parchment background, while to his right an unfurled American flag is depicted. In the lower portion of the field, a scene depicting the signing of the Declaration of Independence features labeled effigies of Jefferson, Thompson, Adams, and Franklin arranged at a table. A ribbon scroll at the base bears the sitter's name Roger Sherman and the dates 1776–2026, with a row of five-pointed stars below. The arc legend 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE runs along the upper rim, and the border is decorated with laurel branches. |
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Roger Sherman was the only Founding Father to sign all four of the major documents establishing the United States: the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. His Connecticut Compromise of 1787 broke the deadlock between large and small states over congressional representation — without it, the Philadelphia Convention likely collapses entirely.
Barbados has quietly built one of the more coherent series of American Founders issues among Caribbean mints. Sherman, perpetually overshadowed by more celebrated contemporaries, makes for an unusual and defensible choice.