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| Issuer | Bermuda Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 2000-2007 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in intaglio at right, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint with tropical flowers at centre and a dolphin vignette at lower right. The date appears at upper centre, with the legal tender inscription in small letterpress text at centre. Denomination numerals in $10 appear at lower left and lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | BERMUDA MONETARY AUTHORITY TEN DOLLARS THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER ISSUED UNDER THE BERMUDA MONETARY AUTHORITY ACT 1969 |
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The Bermuda Monetary Authority was established in 1969, taking over currency functions from the Bermuda Government, and this series reflects the mature phase of that institution — professional De La Rue production with a consistent design language held across multiple signature combinations. The gap between the 2000 and 2007 issues with David Saul's name persisting across both is worth noting: Saul served as Finance Minister in the 1990s and later as Premier briefly in 1997, which makes his unusually long tenure on Bermudian banknotes a minor political curiosity.
Pick 52 is the last of the pre-polymer issues for this denomination before Bermuda's eventual transition to more modern substrates.