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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Eastern Caribbean Central Bank |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | At right, a portrait vignette of Queen Elizabeth II faces left, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The ECCB building appears as a secondary vignette, while a Green Sea Turtle is positioned below and a Green-throated Carib (Eulampis jugularis) occupies the upper right corner. Fish motifs appear at lower left, with the dominant colour scheme rendered in shades of green. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank has issued notes through De La Rue almost continuously since its founding in 1983, and the P#42 series represents one of the more stable printings in that relationship — no significant political disruption, no emergency issue, no currency crisis behind it. What makes the ECCB arrangement unusual is that a single note type circulates simultaneously across eight separate jurisdictions: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Anguilla.
The Eastern Caribbean dollar has maintained a fixed peg to the US dollar at 2.70 XCD since 1976 — one of the longest-running fixed pegs in the Western Hemisphere.