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20 Dollars
| Issuer | Pitcairn Islands (British Overseas Territories) |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Designer(s) | Matej Gabris |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Bounty's longboat with Captain Bligh and loyal crew cast adrift at sea, rendered in intaglio style. A tropical bird appears at left. Guilloche underprint frames the design with denominations and bilingual inscriptions in English and Pitkern. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 20 20 20 PITKERN AILEN / PITCAIRN ISLANDS 2017 TWENTY DOLLARS ESSAY NOTE SPECIMEN 20 Yuri Minkin TREASURER 20 GABRISBANKNOTE |
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Pitcairn has no functioning monetary system of its own — the island uses the New Zealand dollar for the handful of transactions its population of roughly fifty people actually conducts. Notes issued under the Pitcairn name are produced entirely for the collector market, with no pretense of circulation. Gabris, a Slovak designer and engraver working extensively in the fantasy note and cinderella space, has produced similar pieces for several other non-issuing or nominal territories.
The watermark is the sole security feature — modest for a note that will never see a cash drawer.