Catalog
1 Dollar - Elizabeth II White border
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 1984 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio print over multicolour guilloche underprint with black horizontal serial numbers. A front-facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Vladimir Tiara and the Queen Victoria Jubilee Necklace occupies the centre-right, flanked at left by a vignette of fish and coral formations; an outline map of the Bahamas Islands appears at centre. A white border at right incorporates the watermark zone, with a see-through bank logo register device at left. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Pick 43 replaced the earlier 1974 series and was one of the last Bahamian notes to carry the more conservative peripheral border treatment before the Central Bank shifted toward the bolder designs of the late 1980s. Thomas De La Rue had handled Bahamian currency production continuously since independence in 1973, and the 1984 dollar shows that long familiarity — the register and ink saturation on surviving examples are consistently tight.
W. C. Allen signed as Governor of the Central Bank; F. H. Smith as Financial Secretary, a pairing specific to a relatively narrow window of issue.