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1 Dollar Jamaica act
| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 1982-1986 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1969-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF JAMAICA ONE DOLLAR SIR ALEXANDER BUSTAMANTE ISSUED UNDER THE BANK OF JAMAICA ACT THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY LIMITED |
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| Signature(s) | O. C. Jefferson H. G. Barber |
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The P#64 series ran through a stretch of acute economic stress in Jamaica — the early 1980s brought severe IMF austerity conditions, a currency that had been devalued repeatedly since the 1970s, and a government scrambling to stabilize external accounts. The 1 Dollar denomination was the workhorse of daily transactions during this period, which means genuine uncirculated survivors are less common than the print run figures might suggest.
Thomas De La Rue held the contract continuously through multiple Jamaican note series, and the watermark security on this issue reflects the relatively modest specification typical of low-denomination notes from this printer in the period — adequate for the time, but superseded within a decade by more layered security formats.