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50 Dollars
| Issuer | Central Bank of Barbados |
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| Year | 2013-2018 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1973-date) |
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| Reverse description | Orange and blue print over a multicolour guilloche underprint, with a central vignette of the statue of Errol Barrow by sculptor Ricky George, situated in Independence Square, Bridgetown, Barbados. A trident device is placed at top centre, echoing the national symbol carried throughout the note's design. |
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| Protection description | Portrait of Errol Barrow and denomination value; windowed security thread embedded in the paper; colour-shifting holographic stripe at right of obverse. |
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The P#77 series represents Barbados's longest-running high-denomination note design, with the 50-dollar face value unchanged in basic format since the 1970s — a deliberate signal of institutional stability from a central bank that has maintained its dollar-to-dollar peg with the USD at 2:1 since 1975 without interruption. De La Rue's involvement with Barbadian currency goes back to the island's earliest post-independence issues, making this one of the more durable printer-issuer relationships in the Caribbean.
The holographic stripe was introduced incrementally across the series during this window as counterfeiting of Caribbean high-denomination notes became a documented regional concern in the early 2010s.