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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II Toucan
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Value | 50 Dollars (50 BZD) |
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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) set against a palm tree; at centre, a vignette of a toucan; at upper right, a left-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the State Diadem; at right, a carved jade head of the Maya sun deity Kinich Ahau. The reverse continues the gold foil substrate treatment consistent with the commemorative nature of the issue. |
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P#CS1 is not a circulating banknote — it is a souvenir card issued by the Central Bank of Belize, almost certainly produced for a numismatic event or collector market rather than any monetary purpose. The "Toucan" designation comes from the bird featured in the design, a recognizable symbol in Belizean natural history imagery.
The gold foil bonding is the genuinely unusual element here. Hybrid substrates of this kind were rare in the early 1980s, predating the widespread adoption of polymer and composite materials in currency production by nearly a decade.