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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Agrias butterflies
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Size | 159 × 64 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Central Bank of Belize THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE SUB • UMBRA • FLOREO $10 (Translation: I flourish in the shade.) |
| Reverse description | A jaguar (Panthera onca) is shown before a palm tree at left, with two agrias butterflies as the central vignette. At upper right, a left-facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the State Diadem, while the carved jade head of the Maya sun god Kinich Ahau appears at right. The gold foil substrate is again evident across the reverse field. |
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P#CS1 is a collector souvenir piece, not a circulating note — issued by the Central Bank of Belize specifically for the numismatic market rather than for any transactional purpose. The gold foil bonding is the point of the whole thing; this was an early experiment in novelty substrate manufacture at a time when several smaller central banks were licensing their names to prestige printing ventures aimed squarely at the collector trade.
Whether the Central Bank retained meaningful control over the production or simply authorized use of its name is worth knowing before treating this as a conventional issue.