Catalog
100 Dollars - Elizabeth II Brigg Whitby
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 1984 |
| Type | Non-circulating banknote |
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| Obverse description | At right, a front-facing crowned portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Kokoshnik Tiara, rendered in intaglio. The central vignette presents the Altun Ha Maya temple, flanked at upper left by a vignette of a queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris). The coat of arms of Belize appears at lower right, with guilloche underprint work throughout the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Central Bank of Belize THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE SUB • UMBRA • FLOREO $100 (Translation: I flourish in the shade.) |
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P#CS1 is a collector's souvenir item, not a circulating banknote — the designation "CS" in the Pick system marks it as such. Belize issued this piece in 1984 to commemorate the Brigg Whitby, the vessel that transported convicts and settlers to what was then British Honduras in the early colonial period. The gold foil bonding in the substrate is the technically unusual element here: hybrid constructions of this kind were rare for the period and reflect the souvenir rather than transactional purpose of the note.
It was never legal tender.