KM 64

SHORT COINS

ENCYCLOPAEDIA

The title of state on the upper arch. In the center: coat of arms, below - the year of minting.

Jamaica attained full independence in 1962.

 Along the rim - slogan F.A.O., word denomination, in the center: Ackee tree fruit, below- numeral denomination.

Ackee (Blighia sapinda). While not indigenous to Jamaica this fruit has remarkable historic associations. It was originally imported from West Africa, probably brought here in a slave ship and now grows luxuriously producing, each year, large quantities of edible fruit.