Catalog
100 Dollars
| Issuer | Eastern Caribbean Central Bank |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At right, an intaglio portrait of Queen Elizabeth II faces left, set against a vignette of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank building at centre. A Green Sea Turtle appears in the lower portion of the design, while a Green-throated Carib (Eulampis jugularis) occupies the upper right. A group of tropical fish is rendered in the lower left, with guilloche underprinting throughout in the dominant black and deep blue colour scheme. |
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| Reverse lettering | ONE HUNDRED $100 EASTERN CARIBBEAN DOLLARS CENTRAL BANK |
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The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank replaced the East Caribbean Currency Authority in 1983, but the note design family remained broadly stable for years afterward — continuity that itself reflects the political fragility of keeping eight small-island jurisdictions (including several British Overseas Territories) sharing a single currency. The ECCB has no single dominant member state, which makes decisions about imagery unusually contentious; the 2000 series navigated this by avoiding any nationally specific iconography that might favor one island over another.
Thomas De La Rue has printed virtually the entire ECCB series since its inception. The security specification on this issue — watermark and thread only — is notably modest for a hundred-dollar denomination by the standards of its era.