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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Bahamas Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue intaglio print over a yellow and pink guilloche underprint, with black serial numbers flanking the central design. A right-facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the George IV State Diadem occupies the left field, with the watermark zone reserved at right. Inscriptions at upper and lower margins identify the Bahamas Monetary Authority and affirm legal tender status under the Bahamas Monetary Authority Act 1968. |
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| Obverse lettering | BAHAMAS MONETARY AUTHORITY ESTABLISHED BY THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT 1968 THESE NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER UNDER THE BAHAMAS MONETARY AUTHORITY ACT 1968 FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT TEN DOLLARS Chairman Manager $10 |
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The Bahamas Monetary Authority was a transitional institution by design — created in 1968 to manage currency after the dissolution of the Board of Commissioners of Currency, but before the establishment of the Central Bank of the Bahamas in 1974. This note belongs to that brief interregnum, a period when the country was internally self-governing under British oversight but not yet fully independent, having achieved that only in 1973.
De La Rue printed the entire P#30 series, as they had the preceding issues. The watermark — a standard security feature for the printer at this period — uses a shell motif specific to Bahamian issues.