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10 Dollars Bimini Sportfishing
| Issuer | Central Bank of The Bahamas |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Bimini — the westernmost point of the Bahamas, sitting roughly 50 miles off Miami — built its international reputation largely on Ernest Hemingway, who fished its waters obsessively during the 1930s and is credited with helping establish big-game sportfishing as a serious pursuit rather than a wealthy man's novelty. The Bahamian government has leaned on that association aggressively in its commemorative program for decades.
KM#232 belongs to a broader Central Bank series exploiting Bahamian ecological and cultural tourism themes, struck to one-ounce .9999 fineness — finer than the more common .999 standard — almost certainly to appeal to the bullion collector market rather than any numismatic or circulating purpose.