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Commems Collection Currency: Bahamas 50 Cents Notes

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In 2021, here on CCF, I presented an e-exhibit of the $1.00 Notes from The Bahamas. (Note: I recently updated the exhibit with a Series 2024 note.) You can see the e-exhibit here: Commems Collection Currency: Bahamas $1 Notes. That exhibit was based on a physical exhibit that I displayed at several local and regional coin shows.

I stated in that thread that I was interested in the Fifty Cent Notes of The Bahamas, and that I might someday pursue a collection of them. Well, I decided to move ahead with such a collection, and herein present my Type collection in the same format that I used for my $1.00 Notes.

My plan is to post one type note per day.

And now, without further adieu...



Introduction


The Bahamas has issued a circulating Fifty Cents Note periodically since 1966. The issues haven't been as numerous as other denominations, but the notes have been updated along the way to reflect the aging of Queen Elizabeth II as well as new banknote technologies.

As I stated in my Bahamas $1 Notes e-exhibit, I recognize that the notes presented aren't particularly rare or valuable, but I believe they make for an interesting collection because of their unusual denomination for paper money (vs. coins). The Bahamas is not the only nation to have issued 50-Cent notes - dozens of countries on every continent have issued a 50-Cent note at one time or another - but The Bahamas appears to be alone in continuing to issue new, updated "half unit" notes.

With the Queen's passing in 2022, and the move away from the Monarch's portrait on most of the other denominations of Bahamas Notes, it would seem The Bahamas' 50 Cents Notes may have come to a fork in the road: Discontinuation or New Issue with the portrait of an important local figure (as with larger denominations). I will be watching to see which path is followed.

This e-exhibit presents a complete Type Set* of the $0.50 banknotes issued for The Bahamas between 1966 and today; there have been five different design types issued.

* My Type Set provides an example of each major Design Type / Series, it does not include all signature combinations.



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Series 1965/66








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Minister for Finance: Stafford Lofthouse Sands
Commissioner of Currency: George V. E. Higgs



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That note looks great and a nice one to have, I may have to look into that.
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Series 1968







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Chairman of Bahamas Monetary Authority: Leslie Hammond
Manager of Bahamas Monetary Authority: Timothy Baswell Donaldson



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Series 1984







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Governor of Central Bank of The Bahamas: William Clifford Allen



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Governor of Central Bank of The Bahamas: Julian W. Francis



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These are fabulous looking notes. I'm looking forward to seeing the remainder of your collection.
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CRISP Evolution Series / Series 2019







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Governor of Central Bank of The Bahamas: John A. Rolle



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Souvenir Folder - Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee


The Series 2019 note was incorporated into a privately-produced commemorative souvenir folder for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee (70th Anniversary) as Queen.









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CRISP $0.50 Note Brochure from Central Bank of Bahamas


The CRISP (Counterfeit Resistant Integrated Security Protocol) was introduced via the Bahamas' $10 note in 2005; each denomination has its own set of distinct CRISP features and first appeared on the $0.50 denomination via the Series 2019 note. One of the technology's primary goals was to prevent counterfeiters from taking a lower denomination note and making it a higher denomination (e.g., a $0.50 note converted into a $5 or $50).

The Central Bank of the Bahamas printed a brochure about the new note at the time of its release to help Bahamians better understand the features of the new notes and to help them identify what would be seen on a genuine note.







A downloadable PDF file of the brochure can be found here: THE HALF DOLLAR BANKNOTE




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Boy does the Queen look young in those 2019 notes. Nice collection, congrats
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Boy does the Queen look young in those 2019 notes. Nice collection, congrats

I agree! It seems the folks at the Central Bank definitely turned back the clock a bit for their selected QEII portrait.



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