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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Orchids and Scarlet macaw
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1885-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | Central Bank of Belize THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE SUB • UMBRA • FLOREO $20 (Translation: I flourish in the shade.) |
| Reverse description | At left, a jaguar (Panthera onca) posed before a palm tree; at centre, a vignette of orchids (Orchidaceae sp.) with a scarlet macaw (Ara macao); at upper right, a left-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the State Diadem; at right, a carved jade head of the Maya sun deity Kinich Ahau. |
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P#CS1 is a commemorative souvenir item, not a circulating banknote — the "CS" prefix in the Pick numbering makes that explicit. Issued by the Central Bank of Belize in 1984, it was produced on an experimental hybrid substrate bonding paper with gold foil, a format with no precedent in Belizean currency proper and almost certainly never intended for use in trade.
Belize had only gained independence from Britain in 1981, making this an early institutional exercise in projecting national identity through a prestige format. The gold foil component makes these fragile over time — delamination at the edges is a known preservation problem with surviving examples.