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100 Dollars Royal Wedding
| Issuer | Central Bank of The Bahamas |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II after Arnold Machin, depicting the sovereign with an elaborate floral diadem and lightly draped shoulders. A small engraver's mark appears in the field below the truncation. The circumferential legend reads 'THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS' above and '· ELIZABETH II ·' below, all in raised Latin lettering. The portrait is rendered in fine relief against a mirror proof field, consistent with Machin's classic Royal portrait style used throughout Commonwealth coinage of this era. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the July 1981 marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, this was one of dozens of Commonwealth commemoratives produced for the occasion — the Bahamas among the more prolific issuers of royal event coinage throughout the 1970s and 80s. The Central Bank had already established a pattern of gold commemoratives tied to British Crown milestones, continuing a relationship that persisted well after independence in 1973.
The .900 fineness places it in line with Bahamian gold commemorative standards of the period rather than the .916 favored by some contemporaries.