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500 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Guyana |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Value | 500 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF GUYANA FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS $500 GOVERNOR VICE PRESIDENT THESE NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF GUYANA FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS $500 |
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Guyana's currency hierarchy shifted significantly after oil revenues began transforming the economy following the 2015 Liza field discovery and commercial production from 2019. The 500-dollar denomination, once representing meaningful purchasing power, has been progressively squeezed from below by inflation and from above by the need for higher denominations to handle routine transactions — a pressure the 2024 series refresh was partly designed to address.
G&D's Munich facility has handled Guyanese note production across multiple series. Cotton substrate, security thread, and watermark place this squarely in the mid-tier security specification G&D typically applies to non-polymer issues in this value range.