20 Dollars

Barbados has issued 20-dollar notes continuously since the Central Bank's founding series of 1973, and this Thomas De La Rue printing fits within a long-running format that changed relatively little across four decades. De La Rue has held the Barbados contract through successive series without interruption — an unusual degree of loyalty to a single security printer for a small Caribbean central bank.

The security specification here is notably lean for a note issued in the 2010s, when most regional central banks had moved to polymer or added optically variable devices. Barbados retained cotton paper with watermark and thread — a conservative posture that the island maintained until its polymer transition.