Catalog
50 Dollars
| Issuer | Eastern Caribbean Central Bank |
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| Year | 2003 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At right, an intaglio portrait of Queen Elizabeth II faces left, with the ECCB headquarters building rendered as a central vignette. A Green Sea Turtle appears in the lower portion of the design, while a Green-throated Carib (Eulampis jugularis) occupies the upper right, and a vignette of tropical fish is positioned at the lower left, all set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | EASTERN CARIBBEAN CENTRAL BANK THESE NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT FIFTY DOLLARS |
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The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank replaced the East Caribbean Currency Authority in 1983, but the visual grammar of its notes changed very little for years afterward — conservative by design, given the bank serves eight separate member territories simultaneously and any redesign requires consensus across governments that don't always agree. The 2003 series represented one of the more substantive updates to that long-running template.
De La Rue's production for this series is conventional by the firm's own standards. Security provision here is basic — thread and watermark only — which reflects ECCB policy at the time rather than any printing limitation.