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100 Dollars
| Issuer | Pitcairn Islands (British Overseas Territories) |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars 100 NZD = USD 59 |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Mutiny on the Bounty scene, with Captain Bligh and loyal crew members cast adrift in the ship's longboat. A tropical bird appears at left. Inscriptions include bilingual island name in Pitkern and English, with ESSAY NOTE SPECIMEN and GABRISBANKNOTE overprint. |
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| Reverse description | A Polynesian woman in the nude, adorned with a floral lei and holding a musical instrument, set against a tropical island landscape. Portrait of John Adams, the last surviving original mutineer at the time of the islands' rediscovery, appears as a vignette. GABRISBANKNOTE overprint present. |
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Pitcairn has no banking system and no domestic currency in circulation — the island's roughly fifty residents use the New Zealand dollar for any actual transactions. These 100 Dollar notes were produced as a numismatic souvenir issue, never intended to function as a medium of exchange. Gabris, a Slovak engraver whose work appears on collector issues for numerous small territories, produced the intaglio-style artwork.
The watermark security feature is notably incongruous on a note that was never at risk of counterfeiting.