Catalog
500 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Guyana |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Value | 500 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents an intaglio engraving of the Public Buildings complex in Georgetown, rendered in deep red and comprising the Parliament Building with its distinctive dome and the adjacent Supreme Court colonnade, set against a multicolour guilloche background with decorative scroll borders at left and right. The denomination appears in numeral form at all four corners as "$500", with an additional ornate numeral panel at upper right. The printer's imprint "DE LA RUE" is visible in small lettering below the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK OF GUYANA FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS $500 DE LA RUE |
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| Comments |
Thomas De La Rue has printed Guyana's higher denominations continuously since the country's independence-era note issues, and this 2002 date represents a relatively late point in a long unbroken contract relationship. The 500 Dollar denomination was introduced partly in response to chronic inflation that had eroded the real value of lower notes throughout the 1980s and 1990s — by the early 2000s, 500 Guyana Dollars bought what a handful of coins once covered.
Security provision on this issue is modest: watermark and thread only, without the foil or colour-shift elements De La Rue was applying to other clients' notes at the same time.