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| Issuer | Government of Antigua & Barbuda |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Composition | Other (Gold Foil) |
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| Obverse lettering | 30 GOVERNMENT OF ANTIGUA & BARBUDA 30 INDEPENDENCE NOVEMBER 1981 Minister of Finance 30 THIRTY DOLLARS 30 |
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| Reverse lettering | 30 GOVERNMENT OF ANTIGUA & BARBUDA 30 Red-billed Tropicbird 30 THIRTY DOLLARS 30 |
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Antigua and Barbuda gained full independence on 1 November 1981, and this gold foil commemorative was part of the wave of numismatic material issued around that transition. It is not a circulating banknote and was never intended to be — gold foil pieces of this type were marketed primarily to collectors through philatelic and numismatic bureaus, a revenue stream that newly independent Caribbean states exploited aggressively in the early 1980s.
The $30 denomination is purely nominal. No legal tender obligation backed it in any practical sense.