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100 Dollars Discovery of the New World
| Issuer | Central Bank of The Bahamas |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | · COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS · RDM 1992 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued to mark the quincentenary of Columbus's 1492 landfall, which many scholars place at San Salvador in the Bahamian archipelago — though the exact island remains genuinely disputed, with Samana Cay and Plana Cays among the competing candidates. The Bahamas had particular standing to issue this commemorative, given that the first European contact with the Americas almost certainly occurred on what is now Bahamian soil.
The .900 fine specification follows a composition common to many Commonwealth commemorative gold issues of the early 1990s, keeping the piece just outside the higher-purity bracket used by bullion coins.