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30 Dollars Pirate of the tropical seas

Issuer Government of Antigua & Barbuda
Year 1981
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Size 152 x 69 mm
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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 Magnificent Frigatebird 30 THIRTY DOLLARS 30
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Antigua and Barbuda gained independence from Britain in November 1981, and this note belongs to a wave of novelty legal tender issues that newly sovereign Caribbean states embraced almost immediately — partly as revenue, mostly through collector sales rather than any expectation of circulation. The $30 denomination is deliberate nonsense by banking standards, designed to make reuse impossible and guarantee the item ends up in an album.

Gold foil construction means the substrate has no relationship to conventional banknote paper, and these were never intended to pass through a till. The pirate theme traded on Caribbean romance for a foreign collector market.

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