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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 1974 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in orange with a yellow guilloche underprint and black serial numbers. A portrait vignette of Queen Elizabeth II appears at left, the effigy facing right and wearing the George IV State Diadem. The watermark window is reserved at right, with the legal tender inscription running across the face of the note. |
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| Signature(s) | T. B. Donaldson W. C. Allen |
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The Central Bank of the Bahamas was only established in 1974, replacing the Bahamas Monetary Authority, and this Pick 37 is among the first issues under that new institutional framework. Thomas De La Rue handled the entire series, as they had for Bahamian currency going back through the colonial period — a relationship that continued well into the 1980s.
T. B. Donaldson served as Governor of the newly formed Central Bank, with W. C. Allen as co-signatory. The 1974 date on these notes marks a genuine institutional transition, not merely a design refresh.