Catalog
20 Dollars
| Issuer | British Caribbean Territories Currency Board |
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| Year | 1953-1964 |
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| Value | 20 Dollars (20 BWI$) |
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| Obverse lettering | THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN TERRITORIES EASTERN GROUP TWENTY DOLLARS FOR THE CURRENCY BOARD MEMBER CHAIRMAN MEMBER $20 THESE NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT |
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| Reverse lettering | TWENTY DOLLARS $20 THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN TERRITORIES EASTERN GROUP BARBADOS LEEWARD ISLANDS BRITISH GUIANA WINDWARD ISLANDS TRINIDAD & TOBAGO FIDE FAUSTО |
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The British Caribbean Territories Currency Board was established in 1950 to provide a unified currency across a disparate collection of colonies — Barbados, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Windward Islands. The $20 was the highest denomination in the series, and Bradbury, Wilkinson produced the full range from their Surrey works using intaglio printing, which gives the notes their characteristic tactile surface.
The series straddled the short-lived West Indies Federation (1958–1962), meaning later dates on this note technically circulated during a period when the colonies were nominally in political union. The Currency Board itself was wound up in 1965 as individual territories established their own central banks.