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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;7Jags, post: 3590331, member: 78719&quot;]I will take a picture this evening as I am at work.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some more information:</p><p><br /></p><p>The Franklin Mint made money on striking proof sets for many countries, esp. the Caribbean (but others as well). They then also struck uncirculated specimen sets, and they struck uncirculated coins for circulation; these to supposedly &quot;legitimize&quot; the proof sets. Some countries such as T&amp;T and Belize made proof sets that were all sterling silver and others that were all, or mostly circulation quality metal such as copper nickel or aluminum. So there was the 1984 T&amp;T sterling set and the 1984 T&amp;T bronze, copper nickel with the $10 coin still sterling silver even in this set.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some have said that currency type coins did not circulate, but I have seen some Jamaica coins and MANY Belize coins that did circulate up to the 50c size. I have not seen the larger coins $1, $5, $10 to circulate.</p><p><br /></p><p>The FM struck uncirculated coins in matte (M) finish only through 1974. After that all sets were struck in proof-like format (U) through 1984. The last T&amp;T specimen set known to have been struck is the 1983, with (U) coins as would be expected. None are known to my knowledge to have been struck for 1984, but it certainly is possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins released to the Central Banks for purported circulation were as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>- (M) matte coins struck through 1977.</p><p>- (U) proof like coins struck 1977 through 1984</p><p><br /></p><p>These come individually and are quite scarce except for Jamaica 1984 (U) coins struck in 20c - 50c as these are known from the Franklin Mint &quot;Coins of the World&quot; cardboard sets.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have published the Barbados 1984 (U) $10 coin, and someone else found one; I have the Jamaica 1984 (U) $10 coin as well, and these are similar to this T&amp;T 50c piece in that it looks like they were treated as intended for circulation and not broken up mint set survivors.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is Proof Like (U) because it was struck by specific dies on copper nickel circulation quality planchets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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