Circulation of the New CRISP $50 Banknote

Published: Friday December 15th, 2006

The Central Bank is pleased to announce that on December 13, 2006, it released into circulation the third denomination in its CRISP (Counterfeit Resistant Integrated Security Product) family of banknotes to continue to upgrade the security of Bahamian banknotes. The CRISP $50, which follows the CRISP $20 and CRISP $10 introduced on 13 September 2006 and 3 August 2005 respectively, will incorporate similar security features as the earlier CRISP $20 and CRISP $10 banknotes. In addition, it will bear a denomination specific watermark of Roland T. Symonette and the numeral 50 appearing on the left.