Catalog
100 Dollars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Barbados |
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| Year | 2013-2018 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Reverse description | Gray, brown, and blue print over a multicolour guilloche underprint, with a central vignette of the Grantley Adams International Airport terminal at Seawell, Christ Church. A trident device appears at top centre, and the issuer's name and denomination are rendered in matching intaglio lettering below. |
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| Protection description | Portrait of Grantley Adams and denomination numeral; windowed security thread embedded in the substrate; colour-shifting holographic stripe at right of obverse; trident see-through register feature at lower left. |
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| Comments |
The Barbados dollar has been pegged to the US dollar at a fixed rate of 2:1 since 1975, a parity maintained without interruption through every subsequent regional economic shock. That rigidity made the Central Bank's note design choices largely about signalling stability rather than managing exchange policy — the physical currency itself was never under speculative pressure, so production runs could be planned well in advance and printed to consistent specification by De La Rue across multiple years without the interruptions common in more volatile Caribbean economies.
P#78 spans a five-year date range, suggesting routine replacement cycles rather than any single reissue event.