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Barbados banknotes
Barbados paper money catalog and Barbadosian currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • British and USA currency, till 1935
  • Pound = 20 Shillings = 240 Pence, till 1935
  • British West Indies Dollar = 0.20 Pound, 1935-50
  • British East Caribbean Dollar, 1950-64
  • East Caribbean Dollar, 1964-73
  • Dollar = 100 cents, from 1973

• For issues between 1950-73 see:
  • British East Caribbean Territories, 1950-64
  • East Caribbean States, 1965-73

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Pick #	Date
		British Colony till 1966
1	1915-17	1 pound
2-6	1938-49	1, 2, 5, 20, 100 $
		State, from 1966
29-35	(1973)	1, 2, 5, 5, 10, 20, 100 $; sign. C.Blackman
35A-B	(1973)	10, 100 $
36-41	(1986-89)	2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 $; sign. K.King
42-45	(1993-4)	2, 5, 20, 100 $; sign. M.Springer
46-49	(1995)	2, 5, 10, 20 $; sign. M.Springer, ascending number
50-52	(1997)	20, 50, 100 $; sign. M.Springer, ascending number, big denomination numerals
53	1997	100 $; commemorative "25th Anniversary Central Bank"
54-59	(1998)	2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 $; sign. W.Cox
60-65	(2000)	2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 $; sign. M.Williams
65A	2002	5 $; commemorative "30th Anniversary of the Central Bank of Barbados"
66-71	2007	2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 $
72	2002	20 $; commemorative "40th Anniversary of the Central Bank of Barbados"
73-78	2013-18	2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 $
79	2016	50 $; commemorative "50 Years of Independence