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Description:
Obverse
Lettering:
OUR PEOPLE - OUR MOST PRECIOUS ASSET
ONE PEOPLE ONE NATION ONE DESTINY
Bank of Guyana
1977
Reverse
Hoatzin bird left, legend above right, denomination below left. The bird is Guyana’s National Bird, the Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin), also known as the Hoactzin, Stinkbird, or Canje Pheasant. Present in the Amazon-Orenoque basin, it is related to the extinct Archeopteryx.
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