Catalog
20 Dollars
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Value | 20 Dollars (20 BSD) |
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| Reverse description | Red and black intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint; the central vignette presents a vertical-format view of cruise ships docked in Nassau Harbour, printed in landscape orientation on the note. The Coat of Arms of the Bahamas together with the bank logo appear at right, an anchor device is placed at lower left, and the watermark zone is reserved at the left margin. |
| Reverse lettering | THE CENTRAL BANK OF THE BAHAMAS PARADISE ISLAND NASSAU HARBOUR TWENTY DOLLARS THOMAS DE LA RUE AND COMPANY LIMITED $20 FORWARD UPWARD ONWARD TOGETHER |
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The P#65 series replaced the older 1974-design notes that had carried the Bahamas through two decades of post-independence currency. By 1997, De La Rue had incorporated a holographic strip — still a relatively novel security feature for Caribbean issuers at the time — alongside the see-through register, which required precise front-to-back registration during printing and was prone to misalignment on early runs of several contemporaneous De La Rue contracts.
The $20 denomination filled a gap in everyday commerce that the $10 and $50 notes straddled awkwardly, and it saw heavier transactional use than either.