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25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Bird of Paradise flower
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Composition | Hybrid substrate (paper bonded with gold foil) |
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| Obverse description | At right, a front-facing crowned portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Kokoshnik Tiara, with the Altun Ha Maya temple vignette at centre and the coat of arms of Belize at lower right. A queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris) vignette occupies the upper left. The design is executed on a gold foil-bonded substrate, lending the note a distinctive metallic appearance. |
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| Obverse lettering | Central Bank of Belize THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE SUB • UMBRA • FLOREO $25 (Translation: I flourish in the shade.) |
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P#CS1 is a commemorative souvenir note, not a circulating issue — the "CS" prefix in the Pick numbering makes that explicit. Belize had only achieved full independence in 1981, and the Central Bank itself was barely established when this piece was produced. Whether it ever held legal tender status in any meaningful operational sense is doubtful; it was issued for collectors and ceremonial purposes rather than the payment system.
The hybrid paper-and-gold-foil substrate is the genuinely unusual detail here. That construction was rare in the early 1980s for any issuing authority in Central America or the Caribbean, and it creates known preservation problems — delamination between the foil layer and the paper substrate is reported in poorly stored examples.