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5 Dollars Trident
| Issuer | Central Bank of Barbados |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 20 PRIDE AND INDUSTRY BARBADOS |
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| Reverse lettering | .9999 FINE GOLD FIVE DOLLARS ONE TROY OUNCE |
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Barbados has issued gold bullion coinage sporadically since the 1970s, but the 2020 Trident series marked a deliberate repositioning — the Central Bank contracting the Pobjoy Mint to produce a refined bullion program aimed squarely at the international collector market rather than domestic circulation. The five-dollar face value is nominal; no legal tender transaction in Barbados has ever involved gold coinage at anything near spot.
The trident itself carries specific constitutional weight in Barbadian national identity, having been broken from Britannia's staff in a ceremonial gesture at the 1966 independence declaration.