50 Dollars - Elizabeth II

The 1965 Bahamas Government series was issued in anticipation of internal self-government, which arrived in January 1964 — meaning these notes were circulating under a constitutional arrangement that had already shifted authority significantly away from London even as the currency retained its colonial form. The 50-dollar denomination was the highest in the series, and at that value saw limited everyday use; most examples in existence today show minimal wear for that reason alone.

Thomas De La Rue's intaglio work on this series is among the cleaner examples of their mid-1960s colonial output. The watermark — a feature De La Rue deployed conservatively on high-denomination colonial issues of this period — remains one of the few security elements on a note that predates the more layered anti-counterfeiting approaches the Bahamas would adopt after full independence in 1973.