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20 Dollars L.1960
| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company Limited, London, United Kingdom |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of the Bank of Jamaica headquarters building complex, rendered in a detailed architectural engraving with surrounding grounds and a partly clouded sky. Floral rosette medallions occupy the four corners, with the denomination $20 repeated at each corner and the bank's name inscribed beneath the building vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK OF JAMAICA TWENTY DOLLARS $20 BANK OF JAMAICA |
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Jamaica's $20 note entered circulation during a period of significant monetary pressure — the mid-1970s saw the Manley government's turn toward democratic socialism, IMF negotiations, and a crawling devaluation of the Jamaican dollar that had been pegged at parity with the US dollar only since 1969. The $20 denomination was not trivial street currency; it represented purchasing power that ordinary Jamaicans felt eroding in real time.
De La Rue had printed Jamaican notes since independence, and the Legal Tender Law cited — L.1960 — predates the Bank of Jamaica Act itself, a legislative quirk that persisted through multiple series simply because no parliament moved to update the citation on printed stock.