Catalog
100 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | Blue, red, and purple intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint. The central vignette presents an Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) leaping from the water, with the Coat of Arms of the Bahamas and the bank logo placed at right, and a secondary bank logo at lower left. A blank watermark panel is reserved at left. |
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| Protection description | Caravel sailing ship |
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The $100 note occupies an unusual position in Bahamian currency history — the Bahamas introduced its own dollar in 1966 at par with the US dollar, a peg it has maintained ever since, which makes the $100 denomination both legally distinct from and functionally equivalent to its American counterpart in daily commerce. That parity has always created pressure on high-denomination Bahamian notes, which circulate alongside US currency and are sometimes treated as interchangeable by tourists and traders alike.
BA International — the final corporate identity of the British American Bank Note Company before its 2012 closure — printed this series from Ottawa. The watermark is the sole listed security feature, modest by mid-1990s standards for a $100 face value.