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91 Dollars Antarctica, Series A; Autumn
| Issuer | Antarctica Film Arts |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Currency | Dollar |
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| Obverse description | Pink-tinted fantasy note printed in dark intaglio-style engraving on a pink ground, with elaborate acanthus-scroll guilloche borders at left and right. Central vignette shows a pastoral scene with a man and woman in 19th-century dress at right, mountains and grazing animals in the background. A circular blue seal inscribed ANTARCTICA FILM ARTS / AUTUMN occupies the centre, with denomination numerals in all four corners. |
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| Reverse description | Pink-tinted fantasy note with a symmetrical engraved design on a pink ground. The central vignette, enclosed within a floral guilloche ring, presents a wooden barrel floating at sea bearing a hexagonal Antarctica Film Arts emblem. Flanking medallions contain vignettes of a rat, a wheat sheaf, a sailing ship, and a crossed spoon-and-fork motif; denomination appears in Roman numerals (XCI) and Arabic numerals at corners. |
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Antarctica Film Arts issued this note as part of a numbered artistic series rather than any monetary scheme — these are artist's proofs in banknote form, not fantasy currency in the conventional sense. The "91 Dollars" denomination and the seasonal subtitle "Autumn" place it within a conceptual framework where value and denomination are deliberately arbitrary, a formal device common in the artist-as-central-bank genre that gained traction in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Series A designation suggests at least one subsequent series was planned or produced. Printed on paper rather than polymer, which sets it apart from the Antarctic-themed novelty notes of the same period that typically mimicked official security printing more closely.