Catalog
20 Dollars Vertical ships
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Signature(s) | James H. Smith |
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| Protection description | Sailing ship |
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The Bahamas switched to a vertical note format for this series in the early 1990s, a deliberate design decision that was still genuinely unusual among Caribbean central banks at the time. Thomas De La Rue handled the printing, as they had for most Bahamian paper currency going back to the pre-independence issues under the Bahamas Currency Board.
The P#54A designation distinguishes the Allen/Smith signature combination from later issues in the same series. Signature varieties on Bahamian notes from this period can be deceptively easy to overlook but matter considerably to completeness-minded collectors working through the run.