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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Bahamas Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1966-date) |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour print centred on a vignette of a produce market scene, with an abundance of fruits in the foreground and figures aboard boats in the background. A floral motif occupies the left border, while the coat of arms of the Bahamas is positioned at right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Bahamas Monetary Authority was a transitional institution, created in 1968 to manage currency after the dissolution of the British Caribbean Currency Board arrangement but before the establishment of the Central Bank of the Bahamas in 1974. This $50 note belongs to that brief six-year window — not quite colonial, not quite fully sovereign.
De La Rue's printing for this series is characteristically tight, and the $50 was the highest denomination issued under the BMA, meaning circulation volumes were low relative to smaller face values. Survivors in any honest grade are harder to locate than the series catalog position might suggest.