Catalog
10 Dollars L.1960, small guilloche
| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1969-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of national hero George William Gordon at left, rendered in intaglio with fine line engraving, his name inscribed below the portrait. The Jamaican coat of arms is positioned at bottom centre, flanked by guilloche underprint in blue and pink tones. The serial number appears at upper right and lower left, with the Governor's signature and printer's imprint at bottom right. |
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| Reverse description | A detailed intaglio vignette of the Jamaican bauxite industry occupies the central field, with heavy earth-moving machinery, cranes, and trucks at work in an open-cast mining landscape, mountains visible in the background. The four corners carry denomination numerals in ornate guilloche panels. The title inscription 'THE BAUXITE INDUSTRY' appears below the central vignette. |
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The Bank of Jamaica opened in 1961, a year before independence, giving the new state an institutional framework ready before the political transition was complete. This note falls under the Legal Tender Law of 1960 — hence the L.1960 dating — even though it was physically issued a decade later. Jamaica had been using Jamaican dollars only since 1969, when the dollar replaced the Jamaican pound at a two-to-one conversion, so P#57 represents the very earliest phase of the dollar series.
The "small guilloche" designation distinguishes this from a later plate variant with a larger guilloche pattern — a minor but catalogueable die change that De La Rue made during the run.