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75 Dollars - Elizabeth II Yellowtail snapper
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Composition | Hybrid substrate (paper bonded with gold foil) |
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| Obverse description | The centre of the note is occupied by a vignette of the Altun Ha Maya temple, with a front-facing crowned portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Kokoshnik Tiara at right and the Coat of Arms of Belize at lower right. A vignette of a Queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris) appears at upper left, the whole composition commemorating the Third Anniversary of Independence of Belize. |
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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 Belize 75 Dollar note from 1984 is not a circulating issue — it was produced as a commemorative piece marking the 75th anniversary of Scouting in Belize, and was never intended for general use. That alone makes Pick CS1 an anomaly in any collection built around circulating Caribbean currency.
The gold foil bonded into the substrate is the real story here. This hybrid construction was exceptionally rare for 1984 and was chosen deliberately to give the piece a collectible permanence. Few central banks were authorizing anything like it at the time.