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30 Dollars Wonders of the sea garden
| Issuer | Government of Antigua & Barbuda |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Composition | Other (Gold Foil) |
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| Reverse description | Gold foil reverse bearing a central rectangular vignette in high relief with a group of Queen Angelfish swimming among coral and sea grasses, rendered in fine engraved detail against a ruled horizontal line background. The denomination numeral 30 appears in ornamental cartouches at each corner, with foliate border columns flanking the central scene on both sides. The species caption Queen Angelfish is inscribed below the central group, and the denomination legend THIRTY DOLLARS occupies a ruled panel along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 30 GOVERNMENT OF ANTIGUA & BARBUDA 30 Queen Angelfish 30 THIRTY DOLLARS 30 |
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Gold foil notes issued by Caribbean microstates in the early 1980s occupy an odd corner of notaphily — technically legal tender, practically never spent, and aimed squarely at the collector market from the moment of issue. Antigua & Barbuda had gained independence only in November 1981, and these novelty denominations appeared almost immediately, exploiting the new nation's authority to issue currency without any expectation of actual monetary use.
The foil substrate makes cancellation and redemption essentially moot — no central bank seriously anticipated these circulating. Survival rates are high; wear is nearly nonexistent.