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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and violet intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint, with black serial numbers in ascending format at lower left. A front-facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Burmese Ruby Tiara occupies the centre right, flanked at left by a vignette of American flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber); a see-through registration device incorporating the bank logo appears at left, with an outline map of the Bahamas Islands at centre and a watermark window at right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
The P#59 series marked a transitional moment for Bahamian currency design — De La Rue retained the broad compositional framework from earlier issues while integrating updated security infrastructure ahead of the more substantial redesign that followed in the 2000s. The watermark on this issue is a stacked multiple watermark, a De La Rue house technique of the period.
The Bahamas had maintained De La Rue as its exclusive printer since independence in 1973, a relationship that continued unbroken through this issue and well beyond.