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3 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse lettering | THE CENTRAL BANK OF BAHAMAS THREE DOLLARS REGATTA THOMAS DE LA RUE AND COMPANY LIMITED $3 FORWARD UPWARD ONWARD TOGETHER |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Bahamian $3 note is one of the few surviving examples of that denomination anywhere in the world — a deliberate choice by the Central Bank to accommodate the country's prevailing hotel and casino tipping culture, where a three-dollar bill was genuinely more practical than breaking a five. Most countries that experimented with the denomination quietly abandoned it; the Bahamas kept it.
De La Rue printed the series to a high specification, but the $3 remained the oddity of the issue — handled heavily in tourist environments and correspondingly difficult to find in better grades today.