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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II Brown pelican
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Composition | Hybrid substrate (paper bonded with gold foil) |
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| Obverse description | At right, a front-facing crowned portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Kokoshnik Tiara, rendered in intaglio relief. The centre of the note presents a vignette of the Altun Ha temple, a pre-Columbian Maya ruin in Belize, while the coat of arms of Belize appears at lower right. A vignette of a Queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris) occupies the upper left, set against a decorative guilloche underprint across the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Central Bank of Belize THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE SUB • UMBRA • FLOREO $50 (Translation: I flourish in the shade.) |
| Reverse description | At left, a jaguar (Panthera onca) is shown before a palm tree in a naturalistic vignette. A Brown Pelican occupies the centre of the composition. At upper right, a left-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the State Diadem appears within the design, while a carved jade head of the Maya sun god Kinich Ahau is rendered at right. |
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