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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Guyana |
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| Year | 1965-1992 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central vignette of a sugar cane field worker engaged in manual harvesting at left, while a large industrial conveyor or tower crane associated with sugar processing dominates the right portion of the design. The composition is rendered in green intaglio on a pale underprint, with guilloche border patterns framing the scene. The denomination and issuer name are repeated in the upper and lower margins. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Bank of Guyana was established in 1965 following independence from Britain, replacing the British Guiana Currency Board. This note spans an unusually long issue window — nearly three decades — during which Guyana lurched through nationalization drives, sugar and bauxite price collapses, and Forbes Burnham's increasingly authoritarian cooperative socialism. By the 1980s, chronic foreign exchange shortages meant De La Rue shipments were sometimes delayed, and older notes remained in circulation well past their practical lifespan.
P#22 examples from the late 1980s frequently show heavy wear, a direct consequence of the extended circulation forced by the currency crisis of that period.