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10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Orchid, Galeandra
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Composition | Hybrid substrate (paper bonded with gold foil) |
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| Obverse description | At right, a front-facing crowned portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Kokoshnik Tiara; at centre, a vignette of the Altun Ha Maya temple; at lower right, the Coat of Arms of Belize. At upper left, a vignette of a Queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris). The legend arcs across the upper register with the anniversary inscription, and the denomination appears at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | At left, a vignette of a jaguar (Panthera onca) set before a palm tree; at centre, a botanical vignette of a Galeandra orchid. At upper right, a left-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the State Diadem, and at right, a carved jade head of the Maya sun god Kinich Ahau. The denomination and legal tender inscription appear in the lower register. |
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P#CS1 is a souvenir card rather than a circulating note — issued by the Central Bank of Belize as a collector item, not for use as currency. The gold foil bonding is the point of the exercise: this was a deliberate prestige production, almost certainly tied to a numismatic event or promotional initiative, though Belize issued several such pieces in the early 1980s as the newly independent nation (independence came in 1981) was actively cultivating an international collector market.
The hybrid substrate makes standard grading criteria largely irrelevant; deterioration typically shows first at the foil-paper bond edges rather than through normal paper wear.