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Antarctican Notes
Reprinted from the International Bank Note Society Journal Volume 35, No. 3, 1996
Six 1996 Souvenir Notes for Antarctica by Jerry Remick, I.B.N.S #366
The Antarctica Overseas Exchange Office Ltd., of Custer, Washington, has issued a most attractive and well-designed series of six denominations of souvenir notes of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 Antarctican dollars to raise funds for various scientific projects that will take place in Antarctica after the year 2001. One Antarctican dollar is equivalent to $1 U.S. The notes are not legal tender in the Antarctic, but may be used there if the giver and the receiver agree.
The Antarctican Overseas Exchange Office Ltd. Guarantees to redeem the notes for their full face value through December 31, 2001. A full explanation of this guarantee of redemption is printed at the left side of the back of each note. After that date 80% of the face value of the notes will be donated to various groups in Antarctica petitioning the Office for funding for projects. The remaining 20% of the face value of the notes sold will be paid to the issuer.
The notes are larger than Canadian or U.S. bank notes, being 7 5/32 inches long by 3 19/32 inches wide. All denominations are the same size.
The printing was done by the British American Banknote Company (now known as Quebecor Financial Printing) with four-color lithography on woven paper with security features that include a hologram, a line of microtext and a special security zone of lettering-like design in nine lines at the very right side of the back. BRITISH AMERICAN BANKNOTE CO. is printed at the top of the face.
The notes are signed on the face by D. John Hamilton (Comptroller) and A.D.J. Carman (Assistant Comptroller). The issue date of March 1, 1996 is printed below the signatures.
The estimated printing run for each denomination is as follows: $1 (20,000), $5 (20,000), $10 (20,000), $20 (11,000), $50 (2,500) and $100 (1,500). In addition, 100 sheets were printed with two copies each of the $1, $5 and $10 notes and 100 sheets were printed with 2 copies each of the $20, $50 and $100.
The notes are available individually at the face-value rate of one Antarctic dollar to one U.S. dollar, plus postal costs. A set of the six denominations of notes with matched serial numbers, accompanied by a descriptive folder on the notes, is $210 U.S. An uncut sheet of two specimens each of the $1, $5 and $10 is $50 U.S. An uncut sheet of two specimens each of the $20, $50 and $100 notes is $400 U.S. Please add $6 U.S. for registered postage or $2 U.S. for regular postage for small orders. Orders may be sent to: Antarctica Overseas Exchange Office Ltd., P.O. Box 61, Custer, Washington 98240-0061, telephone and Fax (604) 431-8017.
Each note has a serial number printed in black on the back, consisting of a letter followed by four numerals.
The very bright multicolor on the notes shows scenery, history, famous people, wildlife and maps. The colors used for scenery depict the extremely cold climate very well.
DESCRIPTION OF THE NOTES
The $1 note shows Antarctic landscapes on both sides. I highly recommend this note as a first choice for collectors, as it shows the Antarctic so well and so attractively. The face shows a magnificent scene of a stunning Antarctic fjord with a group of penguins sunning themselves on the rocky shore in the foreground. The back depicts a large group of Adelie penguins leaping into the cold ocean from the icy shore. Adelie penguins are found only in the Antarctic. Penguins do not live in the Arctic. Some other species of penguins are found in South America, Africa and Australian South Sea regions.
The $5 note shows Antarctic scenery on both sides and is my second choice for collectors to add to their collections. The face shows several crabeater seals on an ice floe with mountains in the background. The back shows a sea scene with several killer whales in the foreground, an albatross gliding over the ocean, and in the background, an ocean-going ship and a snow-and-ice-covered shore.
The face of the $10 note shows a 1/3 body portrait of British explorer, Capt. Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) and, at the left, a small monument of stones with a cross, erected in the Antarctic to commemorate the tragic death of Scott and his party on their return trip from the South Pole. Scott did reach the South Pole, but he found that a month before him, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had reached the South Pole, being the first person to do so. Scot and his team died of starvation on their return trip, only 11 miles from one of their caches of food.
The back shows a detailed map of Antarctican lands, showing territorial bases. All but 2% of the Antarctic is ice and snow. The ice has an average thickness of one mile. If it were to melt, the water contained in it would cause the world''''s oceans to rise by 200 feet.
Up to 5000 scientists involved in scientific projects populate the Antarctic during the warm season, dwindling down to just over 1100 during the winter. Forty-two stations are currently operational year round.
The face of the $20 note shows a profile portrait, facing right, of Norwegian explorer Roald Engelbregt Amundsen (1872-1928) with the mountainous Antarctic in the background. The back shows him surveying the South Pole, with he reached on December 14, 1911. The Norwegian flag, planted at the South Pole, is shown to the right. A sled pulled by dogs is in the background.
The many buildings at McMurdo Station, the largest settlement in the Antarctic, are shown on the face of the $50 note. The back commemorates the International Antarctic Treaty signed in Washington D.C., on December 1, 1959 and entered into force on June 23, 1961. The treaty administers the Antarctic.
The flags of the 12 countries that originally signed the treaty are pictured at the bottom of the note. A phrase from the treaty covers the right part of the back. The Antarctic flag, against a star-filled night sky, covers the left part of the note.
Both sides of the $100 note concern data on the ozone layer and the hole in it. The face shows two graphs of data on the ozone layer, plus a globe of the world with different colors for the thickness of this layer near and above the Antarctic. The back shows, to the left side, a weather satellite in orbit. At right is a globe of the world showing the thickness of the ozone layer in various parts of the southern hemisphere in Dobson units, with the scale being given at left.
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