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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Green and brown intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint with red serial numbers. A front-facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Vladimir Tiara occupies the centre right, flanked at left by a vignette of a spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) and at centre by a queen triggerfish (Balistes vetula) and queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris). The Coat of Arms of Belize with a silver fish appears at lower left, a jade head vignette at upper left, and an Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) see-through register device at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Central Bank of Belize ISSUED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE CENTRAL BANK OF BELIZE ACT, 1982 ONE DOLLAR LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT IN BELIZE OF ANY AMOUNT BELIZE, 1st MAY 1990 GOVERNOR FINANCIAL SECRETARY DIRECTOR SUB • UMBRA • FLOREO $1 (Translation: I flourish in the shade.) |
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The 1990 Belize dollar series coincided with a period of relative monetary stability following the 1976 peg of the Belize dollar to the US dollar at a fixed rate of 2:1 — a parity that has held without interruption ever since. That unusual durability partly explains why this series stayed in circulation longer than most Central American issues of the same vintage, seeing heavy use before polymer substrates eventually replaced cotton paper notes in the region.
Thomas De La Rue's engraved intaglio printing gives the note noticeably raised surface texture, most detectable along the numerals.