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1 Dollar - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Central Bank of Belize |
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| Year | 1983 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint with black serial numbers. At centre-right, a portrait bust of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Kokoshnik Tiara faces front-left, flanked at centre by a vignette of corals and tropical fish; a see-through window element at right takes the form of a queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris). The Coat of Arms of Belize occupies the upper-left corner, while a carved jade head of the Mayan god Kinich Ahau appears at upper-right. |
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| Reverse description | Green intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint. The central vignette presents the National Assembly building in Belmopan; a common iguana (Iguana iguana) is positioned at lower-left, and a jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) faces left at right. |
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Belize gained independence from Britain in 1981, and this 1983 issue was among the earliest notes to circulate under the Central Bank of Belize, which had only been established the prior year. Thomas De La Rue retained the printing contract from the colonial period — continuity of supplier, despite the change in political status.
Elizabeth II remained on the note not as a colonial holdover but because Belize joined the Commonwealth as a constitutional monarchy, a status it retained until becoming a republic in November 2021. Notes of this type consequently have a fixed terminal date for future issues carrying her portrait.