100 Dollars Sailing Ships

Features

Issuer	Antigua and Barbuda
Issuing entity	Government of Antigua & Barbuda
Queen	Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type	Non-circulating banknotes
Year	1981
Value	100 Dollars 100 XCD = USD 37
Currency	Dollar (1965-date)
Composition	Other (.999 Fine Silver against 23K Gold Foil)
Size	153 × 70 mm
Shape	Rectangular (Bold Relief)
Number	N# 433550

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Commemorative issue

Independence November 1981

Series: The Saga of Treasure Ships and Pirates

Obverse

The Jacobean Pirate Hero
Captain Henry Mainwaring and the Resistance

Script: Latin

Lettering:
GOVERNMENT OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
23K
SIR HENRY MAINWARING AND THE RESISTANCE
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS

Designer: Alan D'Estrehan

Reverse

Script: Latin

Lettering:
GOVERNMENT OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
INDEPENDENCE NOVEMBER 1981
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS

Designer: Alan D'Estrehan

Comments

Mainwaring’s ship was the Resistance, which he purchased from Phineas Pett in 1612 for approximately £700. She was 160 tons, fast, and amply armed. His principal targets were Spanish vessels, and he often lay in wait off Cape Spartel, the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Date			No. printed		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1981-Nov			20 000

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