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10 Dollars Inagua Flamingo
| Issuer | Central Bank of The Bahamas |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse description | The central field displays the full Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, featuring a shield divided quarterly with a rising sun and a British sailing ship, supported by a marlin to the left and a flamingo to the right, surmounted by a conch shell atop a helmet with mantling. The national motto on the scroll below reads 'FORWARD UPWARD ONWARD TOGETHER'. The legend 'COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS' arcs along the upper periphery in raised Latin lettering, while the date '2018' appears prominently in the lower field, all set against a deeply mirrored proof black background. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Inagua, the southernmost and most isolated of the major Bahamian islands, hosts one of the largest breeding colonies of West Indian flamingos in the world — a population that had been hunted nearly to extinction by the early twentieth century before conservation efforts beginning in the 1950s brought numbers back above 50,000. The National Trust designation of Great Inagua as a protected area in 1963 is directly responsible for the species' recovery in the Caribbean.