Catalog
20 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | East Caribbean Currency Authority |
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| Year | 1965 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | EAST CARIBBEAN CURRENCY AUTHORITY THESE NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT TWENTY DOLLARS |
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| Reverse lettering | EAST CARIBBEAN CURRENCY AUTHORITY TWENTY DOLLARS |
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The East Caribbean Currency Authority was established in 1965 to replace the British Caribbean Currency Board, which had served the Eastern Caribbean territories since 1950. This note belongs to the ECCA's inaugural series — the first issues made under the new supranational authority rather than the colonial board it superseded. The transition was administrative more than monetary; the same territories, the same De La Rue presses, but a new political arrangement reflecting the post-independence realities of the smaller islands that had not joined Trinidad or Jamaica when those nations left the federation.
De La Rue had printed for the British Caribbean Currency Board throughout the 1950s, so the production relationship was unbroken even as the issuing authority changed names.