Catalog
20 Dollars Central Bank
| Issuer | Central Bank of Barbados |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1973-date) |
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| Obverse description | Violet and orange intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint; the portrait of Samuel Jackman Prescod is placed at right in three-quarter view facing left, with the Coat of Arms of Barbados at left-centre and a vignette of a trident alongside a flying fish (Exocoetidae sp.) at centre. A pelican see-through register element is positioned at left, the 40th anniversary logo at lower left, and ascending-size serial numbers in black at upper left. The central bank title, denomination, and the commemorative date inscription "2 MAY 2012" appear in the surrounding border lettering. |
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| Reverse description | Violet and blue intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint; the central vignette presents a view of Trafalgar Square in Bridgetown, Barbados, with its characteristic column and surrounding civic architecture. A circular watermark window and see-through register element are incorporated at right, and the 40th anniversary denomination panel together with the printer's imprint appears in the lower margin. |
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Barbados has issued paper currency continuously since the Central Bank's establishment in 1972, and De La Rue has held the printing contract for virtually the entire run. This 2012 twenty-dollar note belongs to a long-lived series design that survived with only incremental security updates across multiple decades — unusually conservative for a Caribbean issuer during a period when neighbours were aggressively modernizing their note programs.
The see-through register, a relatively modest feature by 2012 standards, reflects the denomination's position in the series: significant enough to warrant protection, but not the flagship note driving the security specification.