Catalog
100 Dollars
| Issuer | British Caribbean Territories Currency Board |
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| Year | 1950-1951 |
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| In circulation to | 1965 |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of King George VI in an oval frame at right, rendered in intaglio. At left, a vignette of a rolled map of the Caribbean Sea with a palm-tree coastal scene. The date 28th November 1950 appears at lower left, with three facsimile signatures for Member, Chairman, and Member of the Currency Board below the central denomination text. |
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| Protection description | King George VI portrait visible when held to light |
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The British Caribbean Territories (Eastern Group) Currency Board was established in 1950 to provide a unified currency across the Leeward Islands, Windward Islands, Barbados, British Guiana, and Trinidad and Tobago — replacing a patchwork of separate colonial issues. This $100 note, printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson in the first year of the board's operation, circulated at the highest denomination the board ever issued.
At face value equivalent to roughly £20 sterling at the time, the $100 was not a note for ordinary transactions. Very few entered active circulation, which partly accounts for the difficulty in finding worn examples — most survivors show minimal handling.