5 Dollars (Discovery of Canada)
Bahamas, The • 5 Dollars • Silver (.925) • 1991
- Denomination
- 5 Dollars
- Issuer
- Bahamas, The
- Struck
- 1991
- Composition
- Silver (.925)
- Currency
- Dollar
- Weight
- 19.44 g
- Diameter
- 36 mm
- Catalog refs
- KM 142 · Schön 117
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Where it came from
The 1991 Bahamas five-dollar coin was issued as part of a commemorative series celebrating the quincentenary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. Given the geographical significance of the Bahamas as the purported site of his first landfall in 1492, the nation produced this currency to mark the historical milestone of the encounter between Europe and the Caribbean.
The design reflects the thematic focus on maritime exploration and navigation, common to commemorative numismatic programs of the early 1990s. While produced in limited numbers for collectors, the series followed the tradition of Bahamian legal tender coinage, characterized by precise portraiture of Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse and thematic historical imagery on the reverse.
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