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50 Cents - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Bahamas |
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| Year | 1984 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Grey intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint with black serial numbers. A front-facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Vladimir Tiara and the Queen Victoria Jubilee Necklace is positioned at centre right, flanked by a vignette of woven baskets at left and an outline map of the Bahamas Islands at centre. A watermark zone is reserved at the far right, with a see-through bank logo register device at left. |
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| Reverse description | Grey intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint. The central vignette presents Sister Sarah seated facing forward at the Nassau Market, surrounded by fruits and fish, with figures and boats rendered in the background; the Coat of Arms of the Bahamas together with the bank logo appear at right, and a bunch of bananas is placed at lower left. A watermark zone is reserved at the far left of the note. |
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Pick 42 belongs to the third series issued by the Central Bank of the Bahamas, which replaced the Bahamas Monetary Authority in 1974. De La Rue had printed Bahamian notes continuously since independence, and this 50-cent denomination continued that relationship through the 1980s — a period when many Caribbean central banks were actively diversifying their printing contracts away from British firms.
The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature, modest even by the standards of the time. By 1984, intaglio-printed serial number threads and security strips were already common on higher-denomination siblings in the same series.