£34.00
Out of stock
Description
| Issued by | Central Bank of Belize |
| Issue | 01.11.2014 |
| Size | 140 x 70 mm |
| Printer | De La Rue, London (England) – DLR |
| Watermark | Carved head of the “Sleeping Giant” by artist George Gabb, Belize´s most celebrated artistic masterpiece to date located at the National Institute of Culture & History (NICH) and electrotype “TWENTY”. |
| Security features | Watermark. Consecutively running red vertical and black horizontal ascending serial numbers on the obverse side of the banknote. Registration device (see-through feature), which, when held up to the light, forms the complete forms the complete design of the head of the Tapir (Tapirus bairdii), national animal of Belize. Parts of banknote (jabiru bird, central reverse and the denomination block), the vertical serial number and invisible security fibers fluoresce while exposed to an ultraviolet light. Segmented, windowed 1 mm wide security thread that displays repetitive text “BELIZE”. |
| Signatures | Glenford Ysaguirre (Governor); Joseph Waight (Financial Secretary); Nestor Vasquez (Director) |
| Obverse | Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris) and Queen Triggerfish (Balistes vetula). Jaguar (Panthera onca) resting on a tree. Above it is the Altun Ha Jade Head. Silver queen triggerfish and the coat of arms of the Belize |
| Reverse | The Black Orchid (Encyclia cochleatum), the National Flower of Belize. Keel Billed Toucan (Ramphastos solfurantus), the National Bird of Belize. The Baird’s Tapir or Mountain Cow (Tapirello bairdii), the National Animal of Belize, which is the largest land mammal of the American tropics. Animals of Belize: 1) Neotropical fruit bats (Artibeus); 2) Guatemalan Black Howler monkey (Alouatta pigra); 3) The Anteater Northern Tamandua (Tamandua mexicana); 4) Kinkajou “Honey Bear” or “Night Walker” (Potos flavus); 5) Tayra (Eira barbara); 6) Collared Peccary (Pecari tajacu); 7) White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus); Jaguar (Panthera onca) |
