Depicts Cuffy, with an attractive head of hair and pointed goatee faces to the left, around his neck a rope necklace with a small ornament hanging in the front. In large capitalized letters, the inscriptions wrap around the perimeter of the coin, surrounding the central device. In small letters “CUFFY” appears below the bust. Small denticles surround a thin raised rim.

Coffy, or Kofi or Koffi, (died in 1763), was an Akan man who was captured in his native West Africa and stolen for slavery to work in the plantations of the Dutch colony of Berbice in present-day Guyana. He became famous because in 1763 he led a revolt of more than 2,500 slaves against the colony regime. Today, he is a national hero in Guyana.

The Berbice slave uprising was a slave revolt in Guyana that began on 23 February 1763 and lasted to December. It is seen as a major event in Guyana's anti-colonial struggles, and when Guyana became a republic in 1970 the state declared 23 February as a day to commemorate the start of the Berbice slave revolt.

Large numeral “1”, centered, to the left a cow’s head, to the right two sugarcane plants. Wrapping around the top of the design, the legend is a country name. Underneath, in the center, in smaller text: FOOD FOR ALL. Below the large numeral one, centered, is the denomination, date, and issuing authority. Two florets bookend the bottom inscriptions. Small denticles surround a thin raised rim.