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30 Dollars Beauty over the sea
| Issuer | Government of Antigua & Barbuda |
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| Year | 1981 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse description | Gold foil note issued to commemorate Antigua and Barbuda's independence in November 1981, with an embossed central vignette of a sweeping coastal seascape rendered in high relief against a dark background. The national coat of arms appears in an oval medallion at the lower left, while a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II occupies a matching oval at the right; ornate floral and scroll corner devices frame all four edges. The denomination "30" appears in each corner, with the title "THIRTY DOLLARS" in a recessed panel at the foot and a facsimile signature of the Minister of Finance at centre-left. |
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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.