2 Dollars

Barbados had issued 2-dollar notes continuously since 1973, but the 1998 series introduced a revised security thread and updated watermark configuration in response to regional counterfeiting pressure that had affected several Eastern Caribbean currencies through the mid-1990s. The Central Bank had worked with De La Rue on all its series since independence, and the relationship shows in the consistent register quality across the denomination range.

Pick 54 is common in circulated grades; uncirculated examples are harder to find than the low face value might suggest, since these were heavily used in everyday commerce on the island.