Catalog
100 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio print in blue, red, and purple over a multicolour guilloche underprint, with serial numbers printed horizontally and vertically in black. A front-facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the Vladimir Tiara and the Queen Victoria Jubilee Necklace, occupies the centre-right, while an outline map of the Bahamas Islands appears at centre and a sailboat vignette at left. A reserved white border with watermark area is positioned at right, and a see-through register device incorporating the bank logo is at left. |
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| Reverse lettering | THE CENTRAL BANK OF THE BAHAMAS BLUE MARLIN ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS $100 FORWARD UPWARD ONWARD TOGETHER THOMAS DE LA RUE AND COMPANY LIMITED |
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The P#56 was issued to mark the 1992 quincentenary of Columbus's first landfall — widely accepted as occurring in the Bahamas in October 1492, though the precise island remains genuinely disputed among historians. It was a commemorative issue in purpose, but the Central Bank treated it as fully legal tender rather than a collector-only release.
De La Rue's production for the Bahamas throughout this period was consistent with their broader Commonwealth work, and the P#56 shows no known major printing varieties or error notes. High-denomination commemoratives from small island nations in this era frequently ended up in collector hands almost immediately, meaning genuinely circulated examples are harder to locate than uncirculated ones.