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1.14.2
The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank stopped printing its "Data as at" stamp on
its statistics tables in late September 2026. The collection of 2026-09-20 read
it on every table. By 2026-09-30 it was gone from the page, the rendered view
and both exports, and the collector's sentinel refused all 153 ECCB series,
although every table still parsed.
The collector now records an absent stamp as absent. It never borrows the last
stamp it saw, and it never puts its own retrieval time in its place. A stamp
printed in any shape it cannot read still fails loudly, so a restored stamp
cannot pass as missing. With no stamp to compare, a quiet-day skip rests on the
bank's live page agreeing cell for cell with the stored data. A full re-read is
forced whenever the last one is more than 7.5 days old.
Citations for ECCB figures collected since the withdrawal say the bank gave no
currency stamp, and give the date StatCite collected the copy being served,
labelled as StatCite's own. Stamped ECCB citations and Central Bank of Barbados
citations are unchanged byte for byte. The sources page, llms-full.txt and the
guide no longer promise that every ECCB value carries the bank's stamp, and a
test fails if that wording returns.