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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Notaphylic_C, post: 25566300, member: 130786&quot;]<b>Eastern Caribbean Central Bank</b><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />first East Caribbean Currency Authority)</p><p>These notes, from several islands (Antigua, Grenada, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, etc) are easy &amp; fun to collect. Even the first 1965 Series, like the $1.00 note posted by [USER=4626]@Troodon[/USER] won&#039;t break the bank. The first 65 series only issued four denominations ($1.00, $5.00, $20 &amp; $100).</p><p><br /></p><p>The higher two denominations are the toughest of the bunch.</p><p>P-25g:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1637077[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1637078[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The second 1985 &quot;Central Bank&quot; series has two versions &amp; this is where it can get interesting as a collector. Initially, Anguilla was left off the map (P-17 to P-20), an obvious oversight which needed to be corrected &amp; was corrected in 1987 &amp; a revised version (P-21 to P-25) was issued up to 1993. However, most people collected the first (Anguilla omitted) early version but did not keep many examples of the 2nd version.</p><p><br /></p><p>Island issues are coded by the <b>suffix</b> on the serial #:</p><p>Antigua - A</p><p>Dominica -D</p><p>Grenada -G</p><p>St Kitts -K</p><p>St Lucia -L</p><p>Montserrat -M</p><p>Anguilla -U</p><p>St Vincent -V</p><p><br /></p><p>P-21U (Jacobs signature with Anguilla is tougher than most error like $1.00 notes P-17a-v)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1637079[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1637080[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The later 2nd version, also had two signature varieties (Cecil Jacobs &amp; K D Venner) on the $5.00 &amp; up, plus they added a $10 denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p>P-23L1 with the Jacobs signature</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1637082[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>P-22L2 (with the 2nd KD Venner signature):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1637084[/ATTACH]</p><p>The last Venner signature version the toughest to source.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Central Bank also goofed up on their 1993 Series design (P-26 to P-30) which had a black box underlaying the &quot;0&quot; marker making it tough to sort. This was especially tough to distinguish the $10 from the $50 (all notes are the same size) as these two denominations had similar colour schemes.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>P-27a </b>(1993 $10 issued from Antigua)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1637086[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>P-29a </b>(1993 $50 issued from Antigua)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1637088[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There was so much confusion between the two denominations that the underlay was removed &amp; the new $50 gets a greenish design make-over in 1994. The 1993 series lasted only 1 year so certain island issues can be quite tough to source.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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