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50 Dollars
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Printer | Canadian Bank Note Company, Canada (1897-date) |
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| Obverse description | Blue intaglio print over multicolour guilloche underprint; front-facing portrait vignette of Sir Roland T. Symonette at right, with an outline map of the Bahamas Islands and a blooming frangipani (Plumeria sp.) at centre and a secondary map motif at left. A bird-shaped colour-shifting metallic foil element is positioned at centre, with ascending black and red serial numbers and a see-through registration device at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Central Bank of the Bahamas THESE NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER UNDER THE CENTRAL BANK OF THE BAHAMAS ACT 2000 FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT FIFTY DOLLARS SERIES 2019 GOVERNOR Fifty Dollars $50 Sir Roland T. Symonette |
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The Bahamas introduced hybrid substrate notes — a laminated paper-polymer composite — as a middle-ground between traditional cotton paper and full polymer, offering improved durability without the wholesale redesign costs that a full polymer conversion typically demands. This 2019 issue was part of a broader security upgrade across the series, with the Canadian Bank Note Company, which has supplied Bahamian currency for decades, retaining the contract.
The P-W81 designation's "W" prefix reflects the IBNS cataloguing convention for notes on non-traditional substrates introduced after the main Pick sequence was established — a minor but useful detail when cross-referencing older listings that omit this note entirely.