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| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Reference(s) | P#89 |
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| Obverse lettering | $50 BANK OF JAMAICA FIFTY DOLLARS SAMUEL SHARPE JAMAICA 50 GOVERNOR ISSUED UNDER THE BANK OF JAMAICA ACT |
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| Reverse lettering | $50 BANK OF JAMAICA OUT OF MANY, ONE PEOPLE FIFTY DOLLARS DE LA RUE |
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Jamaica's Golden Jubilee — fifty years of independence from Britain, marked in 2012 — prompted a commemorative issue rather than a simple series update. The Bank of Jamaica has periodically used De La Rue for its higher-denomination paper issues, and this note continues that relationship. At the 50-dollar denomination, it sits in an awkward commercial position: by 2012, Jamaican inflation had made 50 dollars a fairly modest sum in daily transactions, giving the commemorative note more symbolic weight than practical purchasing power.
P#89 is watermark-secured but otherwise modest in its security specification for a note of this period — no metallic thread listed in catalog references, which is notable for a De La Rue production from this decade.