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30 Dollars Pirate of the tropical seas
| Uitgever | Government of Antigua & Barbuda |
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| Jaar | 1981 |
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| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
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| Afmetingen | 152 x 69 mm |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | 30 GOVERNMENT OF ANTIGUA & BARBUDA 30 INDEPENDENCE NOVEMBER 1981 Minister of Finance 30 THIRTY DOLLARS 30 |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Gold foil relief on black substrate, with the issuer's name in a banner across the top. The central vignette illustrates a group of Magnificent Frigatebirds perched on branches, with additional birds in flight against a lined sky background; the male bird's distinctive inflated red throat pouch is rendered in relief at centre. The denomination panel 'THIRTY DOLLARS' appears in a rectangular frame at the base, flanked by ornamental guilloche borders, with the numeral 30 in oval cartouches at each corner. |
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| Opmerkingen |
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.