Catalog
10 Dollars - Elizabeth II Without white border
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio print over multicolour guilloche underprint with black horizontal and vertical serial numbers. A front-facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Vladimir Tiara and the Queen Victoria Jubilee Necklace occupies the centre right, with an outline map of the Bahamas Islands at centre and a vignette of American flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) at left. A see-through register feature incorporating the bank logo appears at left, with the watermark zone reserved at right. |
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| Reverse description | Blue intaglio print over multicolour guilloche underprint. A central vignette presents the Hope Town Lighthouse in Abaco Harbour, flanked by the Coat of Arms of the Bahamas and the bank logo at right, with a vignette of a turtle (Testudines sp.) at lower left. The watermark zone is reserved at left. |
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The "without white border" distinction matters more than it might appear. BA International issued the 1992 Bahamian $10 in two varieties — one with a white border framing the face design, one without — and the borderless type is the scarcer of the two, a production variation rather than a deliberate policy change. BA International had absorbed the old British American Bank Note Company name through a series of corporate restructurings, and by 1992 was in a period of transition that may partly explain minor inconsistencies across the print run.
W.C. Allen served as Governor of the Central Bank; James H. Smith signed as a Director. The watermark is the sole listed security feature — modest protection for a denomination of this value.