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100 Dollars - Elizabeth II Parliament
| Issuer | Central Bank of Barbados |
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| Year | 1989 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | · 350th ANNIVERSARY OF PARLIAMENT · 1639 - 1989 |
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Barbados issued this gold piece in 1989 as part of a broader Caribbean trend toward high-denomination bullion-adjacent commemoratives aimed squarely at the collector market rather than circulation. The Central Bank controlled output tightly, keeping mintages low enough to sustain secondary market interest without flooding it — a policy common to small-island issuers who learned from the diluted commemorative programs of the 1970s.
The .917 fineness places it in the traditional crown gold standard, the same alloy used by British sovereigns for centuries — a deliberate choice for a nation that retained the Commonwealth framework after independence in 1966.