5 Dollars Trident

Barbados adopted the trident as a national symbol at independence in 1966, breaking it away from the British colonial "broken trident" imagery in a deliberate act of symbolic completion. This gold issue was struck by the Royal Canadian Mint under contract, which accounts for the .9999 fineness — a standard the RCM has pushed aggressively in its bullion programs since the late 1970s. The Central Bank of Barbados has issued relatively few gold pieces in its history, making individual releases genuinely scarce by Caribbean sovereign mint standards.