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2 Dollars - Elizabeth II Yellow damselfish
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Size | 159 × 64 mm |
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| Obverse description | At right, a front-facing crowned portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Kokoshnik Tiara; at centre, a vignette of the Altun Ha Mayan temple; at lower right, the coat of arms of Belize; at upper left, a vignette of a Queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris). The note was issued to commemorate the Third Anniversary of Belize's Independence. |
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| Obverse lettering | Central Bank of Belize THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE SUB • UMBRA • FLOREO $2 (Translation: I flourish in the shade.) |
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P#CS1 is a souvenir issue, not a circulating banknote — produced by the Central Bank of Belize as a collector piece rather than for use in commerce. The gold foil bonding was a deliberate marketing feature aimed at the philatelic and numismatic trade, a strategy several small Caribbean and Central American central banks pursued in the early 1980s when souvenir currency became a modest but real source of hard currency revenue.
The CS prefix in the Pick reference signals exactly that: commemorative souvenir. These were never intended to pass through cash drawers.