Catalog
1 Dollar - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 2002 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint with black serial numbers. A front-facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the Vladimir Tiara and the Queen Victoria Jubilee Necklace, is positioned at centre right, flanked by a vignette of fish and corals at left and an outline map of the Bahamas Islands at centre. A see-through bank logo and a windowed security thread bearing the country name appear at left, with the watermark area reserved at right. |
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| Protection description | Sailing ship watermark; windowed security thread bearing the country name |
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Pick 70 is a continuation of the long-running Bahamian dollar series that De La Rue has supplied since the Central Bank's earliest issues. The 2002 date places this note in the period following the shift away from the Queen's Silver Jubilee-era designs, though the fundamental security specification — watermark and embedded thread — remained unchanged from the preceding series. Nothing dramatic surrounds this particular issue; the Bahamian dollar held its one-to-one peg with the US dollar throughout, so there was no monetary pressure driving a redesign.
De La Rue's London plant handled both printing and security feature integration, which was not always the case for Caribbean territories of this period.