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20 Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of Guyana |
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| Year | 1996-2018 |
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| Currency | Dollar (decimalized, 1965-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a vignette of a shipbuilding scene to the left, illustrating industrial maritime activity, while the Ferry Vessel Malali is shown docking at a port to the right. The composition is set over a multicolour guilloche underprint, with the denomination and issuing authority inscribed in the upper and lower registers. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK OF GUYANA SHIP BUILDING FERRY VESSEL MALALI TWENTY DOLLARS CANADIAN BANK NOTE COMPANY LIMITED |
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| Comments |
The P#30 series had an unusually long production run, with printing responsibilities split between the Canadian Bank Note Company and De La Rue at different points across the issue's lifespan — a dual-printer arrangement that can produce subtle but catalogable differences in ink saturation and paper stock between earlier and later dates. Specialists distinguish these by examining the quality of the fine-line guilloche work, where the two firms' outputs diverge noticeably under magnification.
Guyana's dollar had been pegged, floated, and devalued repeatedly before this series stabilized, and the note's longevity through 2018 reflects a period of relative monetary calm compared to the turbulence of the 1980s exchange crises.