Catalog
1 Dollar
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Sir Lynden O. Pindling at right, with a multicolour guilloche underprint across the note field. A map vignette of the Bahamas islands appears at centre-left, with the issuer title 'The Central Bank of The Bahamas' across the upper portion. The denomination 'One Dollar' is printed in large serif lettering at centre, with 'SERIES 2015' noted below, and a Governor signature with serial number at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a vignette of a uniformed marching brass band at left, rendered in fine intaglio line work against a multicolour guilloche background. At centre-right, the Bahamian coat of arms is shown beneath a large stylised floral motif in orange and green tones. The issuer title and denomination appear at upper left and lower left respectively, with the printer's imprint 'DE LA RUE' visible at lower right. |
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| Comments |
The P#71A is part of a series the Central Bank of the Bahamas rolled out to address mounting counterfeiting concerns in the Caribbean tourism corridor, where high volumes of small-denomination transactions made low-denomination notes a practical target. De La Rue had produced Bahamian currency for decades by this point, and the relationship shows in the consistency of the security thread placement across successive issues.
The watermark and embedded thread combination was considered adequate for the denomination but not the most technically advanced package De La Rue was offering by 2015.