Catalog
20 Dollars
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse lettering | THE CENTRAL BANK OF THE BAHAMAS THESE NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER UNDER THE CENTRAL BANK OF BAHAMAS ACT 1974 FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT TWENTY DOLLARS Governor Series 2000 $20 SIR MILO B. BUTLER |
| Reverse description | Red and black intaglio on a multicolour guilloche underprint; a panoramic vignette of cruise ships docked in Nassau Harbour occupies the centre of the note, with the Coat of Arms of the Bahamas and the bank logo at right. An anchor device appears at lower left, and the watermark zone is reserved at left. |
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The P#65A is part of the series introduced to coincide with the millennium, a deliberate reissuing decision by the Central Bank rather than a response to any monetary pressure. Thomas De La Rue's production for the Bahamas had been a long-running relationship by this point, and the millennium series carried upgraded security — the hologram strip in particular represented a meaningful step up from the thread-only protection of earlier issues in the same family.
The 20-dollar denomination has historically been the workhorse of Bahamian tourist commerce, given the near-parity relationship between the Bahamian dollar and the US dollar fixed since 1966.