Catalog
50 Dollars - Elizabeth II A Series
| Issuer | Cayman Islands Currency Board |
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| Year | 1974 |
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| Value | 50 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | A vignette of Government House occupies the centre of the reverse, rendered against a multicolour underprint. The denomination appears at the left and is repeated at the top right and below the central vignette. A watermark area is reserved at the right margin. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the right margin of the note. |
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The Cayman Islands Currency Board was established in 1972 following separation from Jamaica, and the 1974 dated series — designed by Anthony Buckley and printed by De La Rue — constitutes the first independent coinage and paper currency the islands ever issued. Before this, Jamaican dollars served as the circulating medium. The A Series 50 Dollar note represented the highest denomination in that inaugural set, issued for a territory whose population at the time numbered fewer than 11,000 people.
Buckley was a specialist portrait photographer who worked with De La Rue on numerous Commonwealth issues; his involvement here was consistent with British colonial printing conventions of the period rather than any particular artistic commission.