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100 Dollars Sailing Ships
| Issuer | Government of Antigua & Barbuda |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1965-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | GOVERNMENT OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 23K JEAN FLEURY CAPTURES TREASURE SHIPS OF CORTEZ ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS |
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| Reverse lettering | GOVERNMENT OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA INDEPENDENCE NOVEMBER 1981 MINISTRY OF FINANCE ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS |
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This note belongs to a short-lived series of legal tender collector issues produced by several Eastern Caribbean island governments in the early 1980s, a period when small sovereign states were actively exploring numismatic revenues as a supplementary income stream. Antigua and Barbuda had only gained full independence in November 1981, and this issue — one of the first under its own name — reflects that almost immediate pivot toward philatelic and numismatic exports as soft currency earners.
The silver-and-gold-foil construction places it firmly outside conventional circulation. D'Estrehan's design work on this series was commissioned specifically for the collector market, not adapted from circulating currency stock.