Catalog
50 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Brown, blue, and orange intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint, with both horizontal and vertical black serial numbers. A front-facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Vladimir Tiara and the Queen Victoria Jubilee Necklace occupies the centre right, flanked at left by a vignette of Fort Fincastle Lighthouse in Nassau; an outline map of the Bahamian archipelago appears at centre. A see-through registration device incorporating the bank logo is positioned at left, with the watermark window at right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The 1992 Bahamas 50 Dollar note was issued as part of a commemorative series marking the quincentenary of Columbus's 1492 landfall in the Americas — the Bahamas, specifically San Salvador Island, being the accepted site of first contact. The Central Bank used the occasion to release updated high-denomination notes rather than a purely commemorative issue, meaning these entered general circulation rather than sitting in souvenir folders.
De La Rue's production for the Bahamas through this period relied on relatively conservative security for a note of this value — the watermark being the primary embedded feature, with no metallic strip in this pick number.