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Portrait of Paul Bogle at left, set against a fine guilloche underprint, with a vignette of a Red-billed Streamertail hummingbird at centre-right and the Jamaican coat of arms at lower left. The denomination appears in intaglio at upper corners and centre, with the Governor's signature below the central vignette. The lower margin carries the legend ISSUED UNDER THE BANK OF JAMAICA LAW 1960. |
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Central intaglio vignette of a multiracial group of children and young people, rendered in fine line engraving against a light guilloche background. To the right of the vignette, commemorative text marks the 25th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, referencing Articles 23–26 on food, education, and employment. Denomination cartouches appear at each corner, with the national motto OUT OF MANY, ONE PEOPLE at lower right. |
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The 1973 Jamaica 2 Dollar note was part of the Bank of Jamaica's first fully decimalized series, introduced following the switch from pounds to dollars in 1969. This particular issue carries the FAO overprint — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — placing it in a broader series of commemorative circulating notes produced globally during the FAO's campaign to promote agricultural development and food security awareness through everyday currency.
Thomas De La Rue printed the underlying series, as they had handled Jamaican currency since independence in 1962. The FAO designation was applied as an overprint rather than a redesign, which is why the base note predates the stamp by several years.