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10 Dollars Third Millennium
| Issuer | Central Bank of The Bahamas |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the approaching turn of the millennium, this was part of a broader Caribbean commemorative trend in the mid-1990s as smaller island nations leveraged their minting authority to produce bullion-adjacent gold issues for the collector market. The Bahamas had established a pattern of prestige gold coinage since the 1967 independence-era series, and by the 1990s these releases were effectively directed at foreign collectors rather than domestic circulation.
At exactly one-half troy ounce of .999 fine gold, the specification aligns with international bullion coin conventions — a deliberate choice to maintain secondary-market liquidity.