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25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Poinciana
| 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 in the Kokoshnik Tiara; at centre, a vignette of the Altun Ha Maya temple; at lower right, the Coat of Arms of Belize. A queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris) appears at upper left, the composition set against a decorative guilloche underprint. |
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| Reverse description | At left, a jaguar (Panthera onca) posed before a palm tree; at centre, a vignette of the royal poinciana in full bloom. At upper right, a left-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the State Diadem is accompanied by 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 — issued by the Central Bank of Belize as a collectible rather than legal tender for everyday transactions. The gold foil bonding process used here was an unusual production choice for a small Caribbean issuer in the early 1980s, when such hybrid substrates were still a novelty outside major European security printers.
Belize had only gained independence from Britain in 1981, making this 1984 issue one of the earliest numismatic commemoratives released under the new national identity — still carrying the Queen's portrait while the country worked through its post-independence institutional arrangements.