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250 Dollars Discovery of the New World
| Issuer | Central Bank of The Bahamas |
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| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued to mark the 500th anniversary of Columbus's 1492 landfall, which most scholars now place at San Salvador in the Bahamas — making the Bahamian claim to this commemorative more than ceremonial. The quincentenary generated a global wave of official coinage across Caribbean and Latin American nations, most of it forgettable. This issue sits at the heavier end of that production run, struck in crown-sized format at .917 fineness consistent with British Commonwealth gold standards inherited from the colonial period.
The anniversary itself was politically fraught by 1992, with indigenous advocacy groups successfully pressuring several governments to cancel or modify planned celebrations.