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1 Dollar Central Bank
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#136, Schön#132 |
| Obverse description | Central design features a Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria), the national bird of Belize, depicted in full flight with wings outstretched, rendered in fine relief against a radiant sunburst field. The bird is shown in left profile with elongated legs trailing behind. Flanking the central motif on either side are decorative caduceus-style serpent and staff devices. The denomination legend ONE DOLLAR and $1 appear in a curved arc along the upper rim, with the country name BELIZE and the date 2012 inscribed along the lower rim. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Belize switched its dollar coinage to nickel brass for the higher denominations in the early 2000s, a practical response to rising metal costs that had made the older cupro-nickel strikes increasingly expensive to produce relative to face value. The Central Bank of Belize, established in 1982 following independence from Britain in 1981, has maintained a fixed exchange rate of 2 Belize dollars to 1 US dollar since 1978 — a peg that has held without devaluation for over four decades, making the currency unusually stable by regional standards.