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50 Dollars Bank of Jamaica
| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 2010 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF JAMAICA FIFTY DOLLARS SAMUEL SHARPE ISSUED UNDER THE BANK OF JAMAICA ACT GOVERNOR 50TH ANNIVERSARY BANK OF JAMAICA 1960-2010 |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Bank of Jamaica headquarters building, a tall modern tower flanked by lower structures, rendered in detailed intaglio against a lightly clouded sky. A spray of tropical flowers occupies the left margin, while guilloche border patterns in red and purple frame the composition at all corners. The inscription "BANK OF JAMAICA" appears to the right of the building vignette, with "FIFTY DOLLARS" along the lower margin and "DE LA RUE" in small lettering at the base. |
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The Bank of Jamaica's 50-dollar denomination has occupied an awkward middle position in the island's note hierarchy for decades — useful enough to keep printing, but periodically overshadowed by rampant inflation that eroded its purchasing power to near irrelevance by the 2010s. Jamaica's currency depreciated sharply against the US dollar throughout the 2000s, and by the time this note was issued, the 50-dollar face value was worth well under a US cent in practical terms.
De La Rue's security specification for this issue is relatively modest — watermark and thread, without the polymer or optically variable ink features the printer was fitting to higher-value Caribbean notes at the same period.