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50 Dollars Small numeral
| Issuer | Central Bank of Barbados |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Size | 150 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green and orange intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint, with black serial numbers. A front-facing portrait vignette of Sir Errol Barrow occupies the right portion of the note, with the Coat of Arms of Barbados at left-centre flanked by a trident and a flying fish (Exocoetidae sp.) in the centre field. A trident see-through register device appears at the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | Green and orange print over a multicolour guilloche underprint. The central vignette presents a view of Trafalgar Square in Bridgetown, Barbados. A circular watermark window and a trident see-through register device are positioned at the right margin. |
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The "Small numeral" designation distinguishes this from an earlier plate variant where the denomination figures at lower right were rendered at a noticeably larger size — a running change rather than a new issue, which is why the two types share the same Pick number and are often conflated in general collections.
De La Rue had held the Barbados contract continuously since the island's first Central Bank issues in 1973, and the consistency of that relationship shows in the printing quality across the series.