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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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| Reverse description | The reverse features a vivid full-color photographic application depicting a blue marlin leaping dramatically from the ocean surface, its elongated bill and distinctive cobalt-blue dorsal fin rendered in striking naturalistic detail against a background of open sea and cloud-filled sky. The scene evokes the celebrated big-game sportfishing tradition of Bimini in the Bahamian archipelago. The denomination '10 DOLLARS' is inscribed along the upper left arc of the border, and the place name 'BIMINI' appears along the upper right arc, both legends set against a matte black border contrasting with the colored central field. |
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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.