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100 Dollars Cetacea-Blue Whale
| Issuer | The Bahamas |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, after the portrait by Raphael David Maklouf, depicting the Queen wearing the George IV State Diadem, drop earrings, and a pearl necklace. The legend COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS arcs around the upper periphery, with the date 1993 positioned in the lower field. A beaded inner border encircles the design, and the engraver's initials RDM appear on the truncation. |
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| Obverse lettering | COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS RDM · 1993 · |
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The Bahamian Cetacea series was part of a broader wave of large-format silver kilo coins issued by smaller nations in the early 1990s, typically produced under contract by foreign mints and sold almost entirely to collectors rather than circulated. The blue whale issue sits in that category without apology — it was never legal tender in any practical sense despite the face value struck on it.
The North Atlantic humpback and blue whale populations had become the subject of intense international scrutiny by 1993, with the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling entering its seventh year and still contested by Japan and Norway. That political friction gave cetacean-themed issues real currency in the collector market that year.