Catalog
2 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1969-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large intaglio vignette of a multiracial group of Jamaican children and youths gathered together, rendered in fine engraved detail against a radiating sunburst guilloche underprint. The denomination '$2' appears in scalloped cartouches at each corner, with 'TWO DOLLARS' in bold letterpress along the lower margin. The motto 'OUT OF MANY, ONE PEOPLE' is inscribed at the right, and 'BANK OF JAMAICA' runs along the top border. |
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| Protection description | a pineapple device incorporated into the paper. |
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The Bank of Jamaica was not established until 1960, and this note belongs to the transitional period in which Jamaica remained a British colony — independent monetary authority was being constructed even before political independence arrived in 1962. De La Rue printed the bulk of Caribbean colonial and newly sovereign issues throughout this period, and their contract work for Jamaica continued seamlessly across the constitutional change.
The P#CS2 designation marks this as a collector's series reissue rather than original circulation stock — worth knowing before attributing any wear pattern to genuine commercial use.