20 Dollars

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank has issued its dollar series through Thomas De La Rue across multiple decades with remarkably little structural change — the 2000 date places this note within a run that maintained consistent plate designs for far longer than most central banks would tolerate. The ECCB itself is an unusual institution: a single monetary authority serving eight territories across the Windward and Leeward Islands, none of which issue their own currency, and the Eastern Caribbean dollar has been pegged to the US dollar at 2.70:1 since 1976 without interruption.

Pick 39 identifies this as part of the series transitioning toward updated security specifications, though the watermark and thread combination on this issue remains relatively basic by De La Rue standards of the period.