Catalog
100 Dollars
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | Central Bank of the Bahamas THESE NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER UNDER THE CENTRAL BANK OF THE BAHAMAS ACT 2000 FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS SERIES 2019 GOVERNOR One Hundred Dollars $100 Arthur Dion Hanna |
| Reverse description | Brown print over multicolour guilloche underprint; a central vignette presents an Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) amid surrounding marine life, with the coat of arms of the Bahamas at lower left. A wide security strip runs across the top of the note, and a see-through registration feature appears at upper right. |
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The Bahamas introduced hybrid substrate notes — a composite of paper and polymer layers — partly as a response to the destruction Hurricane Dorian caused in 2019, which demonstrated how thoroughly conventional paper currency can be rendered unusable by flooding. Hybrid construction offers meaningfully better moisture resistance than traditional cotton-linen paper without requiring the full transition to pure polymer that some issuing banks have found politically complicated.
Canadian Bank Note Company has supplied Bahamian currency for decades, with the Ottawa facility handling the bulk of the region's high-security print work. The TBB#355a designation places this among the first issues of the redesigned 2021 series.