1 — One Dollar
The artwork
Front: Queen Elizabeth II fills the right third, crowned and in evening dress, the Cayman Islands coat of arms beside her shoulder. Behind, a shoal of angelfish in orange and pale blue drifts across a faint chart of the three islands — Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac, each named in small type. A blue roundel reads "Celebrate Cayman, 60 Years, Our First Constitution". Signed by the Minister of Finance and the Managing Director; serial Q/2 668269 twice.
Back: A single vignette, printed in yellows and dusty reds: a limestone bluff rising in a sheer face above scrub-covered slopes and a pale strip of shore, the sort of ironshore headland that gives the Brac its height. Blue and turquoise guilloche work sweeps round it. A conch-shell motif sits top left, a half angelfish at the right edge, matching its other half on the face.
In circulation
The 2018 series carries the sixtieth-anniversary roundel for the islands' first written constitution of 1959, and reached tills shortly after. It remains legal tender and in everyday use alongside the earlier CIMA dollars, the Queen's portrait still the standard face until a Charles III design is prepared.
Details
- CurrencyDollar
- DenominationOne Dollar
- Collectedon the Cayman Islands journey, 2022
- IssuerCayman Islands Monetary Authority
- Series2018 Series, issued under the Monetary Authority Law; "Celebrate Cayman — 60 Years" commemorative roundel
- PrinterCrane Currency (imprinted at the foot of the back)
- SignatureMinister of Finance and Managing Director
- SecuritySee-through register: the half angelfish at the edge of each side completes when held to the light
- Dimensions156 × 66 mm