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500 Dollars Independence
| Issuer | Bank of Jamaica |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | Purple intaglio print over multicolour underprint; front-facing portrait vignettes of National Heroes Nanny of the Maroons and Samuel Sharpe at left centre. The Coat of Arms of Jamaica appears at bottom, flanked by the commemorative Independence 60 logo at centre. Raised tactile dots for visually impaired users are present at the upper right corner, with black serial numbers printed in letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANK OF JAMAICA 500 ISSUED UNDER THE BANK OF JAMAICA ACT 01.06.2022 GOVERNOR JAMAICA 60 RE-IGNITING A NATION FOR GREATNESS Nanny of the Maroons Samuel Sharpe $500 Five Hundred Dollars OUT OF MANY, ONE PEOPLE |
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Jamaica's 500-dollar polymer was introduced as part of the country's 60th independence anniversary issues in 2022, making the commemorative framing genuinely structural rather than incidental — the denomination itself was repositioned within the series to mark the occasion. De La Rue's polymer substrate work for Jamaica had been building since the earlier lower-denomination conversions, and this note extended that program to the highest circulating value.
The watermark security feature listed for a polymer note is worth a second look: true watermarks are a paper technology, and what appears on polymer is typically a clear window or optically equivalent device — catalogued under the watermark heading by convention.