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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Bermuda Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1970-date) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and red intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint, with black serial numbers, date, and signatures. A front-facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the Vladimir Tiara and the Queen Victoria Jubilee Necklace, occupies the centre-right, flanked by a floral vignette at centre and a sea turtle (Chelonioidea sp.) at lower right. A round see-through window security feature is positioned at centre-left. |
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| Reverse lettering | BERMUDA MONETARY AUTHORITY FIFTY DOLLARS QUO FATA FERUNT $50 (Translation: Whither the fates carry us.) |
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The Bermuda Monetary Authority replaced the Bermuda Government as issuing authority in 1969, and De La Rue had printed Bermudian currency continuously through both regimes. By 1989, the $50 note sat at the top of the circulating series — no $100 denomination existed in this series — making it the highest-value note in everyday use on the island.
The see-through register, a feature De La Rue was deploying across several Commonwealth territories in this period, relies on precisely aligned printing on both faces to form a complete image when held to light. On Bermudian notes of this era, the cotton substrate occasionally causes faint ink bleed around fine-line borders, which collectors sometimes misattribute to a printing fault.