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500 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Guyana |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Currency | Dollar (decimalized, 1965-date) |
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| Obverse description | Multicoloured note in dominant tones of yellow, dark red, and purple, with a gradient guilloche underprint of repeating geometric rosette patterns. The Bank of Guyana coat of arms is centred as the principal vignette, flanked to the right by a cartographic vignette of Guyana's natural resources and a watermark window to the left. Two black intaglio signature combinations of the Governor and the Minister of Finance appear below the central vignette, with the denomination "$500" repeated in all four corners. |
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| Protection description | Scarlet macaw parrot head. |
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The 1992 issue falls within a period when Guyana was crawling out of one of the worst debt crises in the Western Hemisphere — by the late 1980s, the country owed more than three times its GDP in external debt, and the currency had been so debased through the 1970s and 1980s that a 500-dollar note, once unthinkable in denomination, had become routine pocket change. Thomas De La Rue produced the series with a single security layer, a watermark alone, which was modest even by early 1990s regional standards.
The Pick 29 series ran for several years with minimal modification to the design plates.