Catalog
10 Dollars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Barbados |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents a detailed intaglio view of the Parliament Buildings and Trafalgar Square in Bridgetown, framed by ornate lathe-work borders. A large latent-image numeral '10' device appears at right. Issuer name and denomination inscribed in the upper register. |
| Reverse lettering | Central Bank of Barbados Ten Dollars $10 DE LA RUE |
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The P#48 series replaced the earlier "brown" $10 signature varieties that had circulated since the late 1970s, with Springer's signature appearing on notes issued during a period of relative monetary stability following the IMF-monitored adjustments of the early 1990s. Barbados had maintained its fixed 2:1 peg to the US dollar since 1975 — a commitment that shaped every printing decision, since note confidence depended entirely on exchange credibility rather than central bank reserve flexibility.
De La Rue's security thread on this series runs as a windowed rather than fully embedded strip, an incremental upgrade over the plain embedded threads of the preceding decade.