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500 Dollars - Certificate of Deposit Hawaii
| Issuer | Department of Finance, Hawaiian Islands |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed obverse with orange guilloche underprint; oval portrait vignette of King Kalakaua at left, central vignette of a steam locomotive flanked by sailing vessels at sea, and a figure harvesting sugarcane at right. Denomination '500' appears in ornate counters at all four corners, with the issuer title across the upper field in bold letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse, unprinted save for a centered typeset attestation text block in grey ink, a facsimile signature of Ronald K. Glover, and the American Bank Note Commemoratives corporate seal in a script vignette below. |
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The Hawaiian Islands' Department of Finance issued these certificates in 1995 as part of a deliberate commemorative series, not for actual monetary circulation. The choice of the American Bank Note Company — by then operating in its final years before its 2000 bankruptcy — is notable; ABNC had printed genuine Hawaiian government paper in the earlier territorial period, lending this issue a degree of historical continuity in its production lineage.
Pick 5 places this within a small numbered series. The 1995 date matters: ABNC was already contracting sharply by then, and surviving certified output from that period is comparatively limited.