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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II A Series
| Issuer | Cayman Islands Currency Board |
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| Year | 1974 |
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| Size | 156 × 66 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | $50 Cayman Islands Currency Board $50 This note is legal tender for Fifty Dollars HE HATH FOUNDED IT UPON THE SEAS Fifty Dollars Chairman $50 Issued under the Cayman Islands Currency Law, 1974 $50 |
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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.