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100 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Belize |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Size | 156 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint with black serial numbers. At centre-right, a bust portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Kokoshnik Tiara faces front-left, flanked by a vignette of corals and fish at centre and a see-through feature of a queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris) at right. The Coat of Arms of Belize appears at upper-left, with a carved jade head of the Maya sun god Kinich Ahau at upper-right. |
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| Reverse lettering | The Monetary Authority of Belize One Hundred Dollars $100 |
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Belize had only become an independent nation in September 1981 — meaning this 1980 note was issued while the country was still British Honduras, a Crown Colony. The Monetary Authority of Belize had been established in 1976, replacing the Currency Board, giving the territory its first locally-administered issuing body before independence was formally achieved. Thomas De La Rue's involvement was consistent with British colonial and former colonial practice across the Caribbean throughout this period.
The P#42 series represents the transitional moment between colonial currency infrastructure and independent monetary administration, with the Queen's portrait carried forward into sovereignty essentially unchanged.