Eastern Caribbean States.

So we have the Eastern Caribbean dollar, nominal – 50 cents. The year of issue of this coin is 1955. Total circulation – 1.500.000.

On the obverse of the coin is shown Queen Elizabeth The Second.

Short history about Eastern Caribbean.

In 1962 was the four-year-old Federation of the West Indies, which comprised the British West Indian colonies of Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and the Windward and the Leeward Islands, was dissolved, following a referendum in which Jamaica opted out of the federation.  In August 1962, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago each proceeded to independence from Britain.

The remaining territories - Barbados, the four Windward Islands of Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the three Leeward territories of Antigua/Barbuda, St. Kitts- Nevis- Anguilla, and Montserrat, continue to negotiate with the British government for a new federation of the “Little Eight”.

The mechanism for these discussions is a Regional Council of Ministers comprising the heads of government of each territory.

In 1981 was representatives of the Governments of the WISA Council signed the Treaty of Basseterre on the 18^th of June, establishing the successor to the Council - the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.