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100 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Bahamas Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, Limited |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio print over yellow and pink guilloche underprint, with black serial numbers. At left, a formal portrait bust of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, wearing the George IV State Diadem. The watermark zone is reserved at right. |
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| Protection description | Shellfish watermark |
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The Bahamas Monetary Authority was itself a transitional institution — created in 1968 to manage currency after independence from Britain in 1964 but before the establishment of the Central Bank of the Bahamas in 1974. This note belongs to that interregnum period, issued under an authority that existed precisely because the new state wasn't yet ready to operate a full central bank.
The $100 denomination made this one of the highest-value notes the BMA ever issued, and De La Rue's involvement was essentially inherited — the colonial relationship with the printer continued unbroken into independence. Pick 33 is genuinely scarce at higher grades; the denomination saw limited everyday handling by design.