Purple print; light blue underprint; black serial numbers. Bust of Queen Elizabeth II at left, head turned right, wearing George IV State Diadem. Watermark area at right.
Reverse description
Multicolour print. Two standing women in Straw Market in Nassau, Bahamas. Flowers at left, Bahamas coat of arms of the Bahamas at right.
Signature(s)
Stafford Lofthouse Sands, George V. E. Higgs, Carlton Elisha Francis, G. W. Smiley Butler,
Protection type
Watermark
Protection description
Shellfish
Obverse lettering
THE CURRENCY NOTE ACT 1965
THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT
THESE NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER
FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT
FIFTY CENTS
Minister for Finance Commissioner of Currency
$1/2
Reverse lettering
THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT
FIFTY CENTS
STRAW MARKET
$1/2
EXPULSIS PIRATIS RESTITUTA COMMERCIA
THOMAS DE LA RUE & COMPANY. LIMITED. (Translation: Pirates expelled, commerce restored.)
