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75 Dollars - Elizabeth II Fairy Basslet
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Reference(s) | P#CS1 |
| Obverse description | At right, a front-facing crowned vignette of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Kokoshnik Tiara; at centre, a vignette of the Altun Ha Maya temple; at lower right, the Coat of Arms of Belize; at upper left, a vignette of the Queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris). The design incorporates the national motto as part of the lettering. |
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| Obverse lettering | Central Bank of Belize THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE SUB • UMBRA • FLOREO $75 (Translation: I flourish in the shade.) |
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The Fairy Basslet note was not a circulating issue — it belongs to a collector series Belize produced in the early 1980s targeting the international numismatic market rather than domestic commerce. The denomination itself, $75, has no practical anchor in Belizean monetary life and was chosen purely to suit the series structure.
The gold foil bonding is the technically interesting element here. Hybrid substrate construction of this kind was genuinely unusual for the period — most security substrate experimentation in the early 1980s was still confined to thread-embedding and watermark refinement. Whether the foil layer adds meaningful forgery resistance or was primarily a selling point for collectors is a fair question.
Pick catalogs this as CS1, the collector series designation confirming its non-circulating status from the outset.