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25 Dollars - Elizabeth II White-tailed deer
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Size | 159 × 64 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Central Bank of Belize THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE SUB • UMBRA • FLOREO $25 (Translation: I flourish in the shade.) |
| Reverse description | At left, a vignette of a Jaguar (Panthera onca) before a palm tree; at centre, a White-tailed Deer; at upper right, a left-facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the State Diadem; at right, a carved jade head of the Maya sun god Kinich Ahau. The denomination and issuer legends appear in full, with signature designations for the Governor, Financial Secretary, and Director. |
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Pick CS1 is not a circulating banknote but a souvenir card issued by the Central Bank of Belize, almost certainly produced for a numismatic event or trade fair — the "CS" prefix in the Pick catalogue denotes exactly that category. The gold foil bonding is the point of the piece: it was never intended to pass through a cash register.
Belize had only established its Central Bank in 1982, two years before this card appeared, following the country's independence from Britain in 1981. The Belize dollar had been pegged to the US dollar at 2:1 since 1978 and remains so — a rate that made the currency stable enough that a luxury souvenir issue carried some actual prestige.