50 Cents - Elizabeth II

The Bahamas Monetary Authority was itself a transitional institution — established in 1968 specifically to manage currency during the interlude between the dissolution of the Board of Commissioners of Currency and the creation of the Central Bank of Bahamas, which didn't arrive until 1974. This note is a product of that brief administrative gap.

De La Rue's 1968 Bahamian series introduced a horizontal format across denominations, a deliberate break from the earlier portrait-oriented designs. The 50 Cents specifically had a short effective life; once the Central Bank series arrived, lower-denomination paper fractionals fell out of favor quickly as coin use expanded.