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5 Dollars Voyage of Christopher Columbus
| Issuer | Central Bank of The Bahamas |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing crowned effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, engraved by Raphael David Maklouf, wearing the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, drop earrings, and a pearl necklace. The truncation bears the engraver's initials 'RDM'. The circumferential legend 'COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS' arcs around the upper field, with the date '1991' positioned centrally below the effigy. A beaded border frames the entire design. |
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| Reverse lettering | 500TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAS Voyage of Columbus ·1492 ·A·SH· 5 DOLLARS |
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Issued to mark the quincentenary of Columbus's 1492 landfall, which the Bahamas claims as its own — the prevailing scholarly consensus places first contact at San Salvador (Watling Island), though that identification wasn't officially formalized by the Bahamian government until 1986. The broader 1992 commemorative boom produced dozens of competing issues across the Caribbean and Latin America, making national differentiation something of a scramble.
The Bahamas had particular standing to issue this piece, given San Salvador's status as the probable first landfall in the archipelago Columbus called "Las Islas de Bajamar."