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250 Dollars - Elizabeth II Freeport

Issuer The Bahamas
Year 2005
Type Non-circulating coin
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Obverse lettering · COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS ·
RDM
250 DOLLARS
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Edge Reeded
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Freeport, established under the Hawksbill Creek Agreement of 1955, was granted sweeping tax concessions and administrative autonomy that made it effectively a city operating outside normal Bahamian jurisdiction — a deliberate experiment in free-market urban development backed by Wallace Groves and the Grand Bahama Port Authority. The arrangement remained politically contentious for decades.

This issue marks the fiftieth anniversary of that agreement.

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