Catalog
50 Dollars
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 2006-2012 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in orange and green with a multicolour guilloche underprint, the obverse bears a front-facing portrait vignette of Sir Roland T. Symonette at left, accompanied by an outline map of the Bahamas islands at centre. Security elements include a windowed colour-shifting security thread with the country name, a metallic foil patch at upper left, and a see-through register feature at left; serial numbers are rendered in ascending red and black letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green and orange with a multicolour guilloche underprint, the reverse presents a vignette of the Central Bank Building in Nassau at left, with the Coat of Arms of The Bahamas positioned at lower centre. The design is framed by fine lathe work and carries the issuer name and denomination in intaglio lettering. |
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The P#75 series was produced by two separate security printers — Giesecke & Devrient and Oberthur Fiduciaire — a dual-sourcing arrangement the Central Bank of The Bahamas used across several denominations during this period to manage supply and reduce dependency on any single contractor. Notes from the two printers are visually similar but distinguishable on close inspection by minor typographic and registration differences.
The Bahamas dollar has been pegged one-to-one with the US dollar since 1966, which makes the $50 denomination essentially a parallel instrument to its American counterpart — a monetary quirk that gives these notes a peculiar status in Caribbean cash economies where US currency circulates freely alongside them.