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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 description | Central vignette in bold relief presents Edward Low's Brigantine under full sail on open seas, rendered in fine .999 silver intaglio against a 23K gold foil ground. Floral and foliate pillar ornaments frame the left and right margins, with denomination numerals in cartouches at all four corners. The issuer legend appears in a raised banner across the top, with the denomination in words along the lower border. |
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| Obverse lettering | GOVERNMENT OF ANTIGUA & BARBUDA 23K EDWARD LOW'S BRIGANTINE ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS |
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The Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority issued conventional circulating notes for Antigua and Barbuda throughout the 1980s, so this piece sits entirely outside that system — it was produced as a legal-tender collectible, not a spending instrument. The .999 silver substrate backed against 23-karat gold foil was a format used by a handful of small Caribbean and Pacific sovereignties in the early 1980s, largely as a revenue mechanism targeting the international numismatic market.
Alan D'Estrehan's involvement places this within a cluster of similar commissions from that period. Antigua and Barbuda had achieved full independence from Britain only in November 1981, making this among the earliest notes issued under that sovereign designation.