{"id":11007,"date":"2012-11-03T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=11007"},"modified":"2022-12-08T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T17:30:00","slug":"the-challenge-who-is-sister-sarah-on-bahamas-50-cent-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=11007","title":{"rendered":"Who is Sister Sarah on Bahamas 50-cent note?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bahamas_cbb_50_c_1974.00.00_b7a_p42a_a_019718_r.jpg\" alt=\"bahamas_cbb_50_c_1974.00.00_b7a_p42a_a_019718_r.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size\">\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">Beginning with the Bahamas&#8217; 50-cent note (B307) introduced in 1984, the back has depicted &#8220;Sister Sarah in Nassau Market.&#8221; However, the bank&#8217;s web site makes no mention of who this woman is, or why she is featured on the banknote. If anyone knows if she is in fact a real person, an archetype, or a fictional character, please <a title=\"Contact\" href=\"..\/contact\/contact.php\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contact me with details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>IDENTIFIED: According to Paul Walters, &#8220;Sister Sarah is indeed a real person. I am not sure if she is still living, I don&#8217;t think she is. She was a prominant figure at the straw market in the 1970s, when the market was located along the dock&#8211;before it moved to its present day location on Bay street.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alex Zlotin found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briland.com\/topmenu\/gifts\/gifts.html\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this article<\/a> that refers to Sister Sarah Johnson as a local artisan straw weaver.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning with the Bahamas&#8217; 50-cent note (B307) introduced in 1984, the back has depicted &#8220;Sister Sarah in Nassau Market.&#8221; However, the bank&#8217;s web site makes no mention of who this woman is, or why she is featured on the banknote. If anyone knows if she is in fact a real<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=11007\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,17],"tags":[22],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-11007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-caribbean","category-challenge","category-north-america","tag-bahamas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11007"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20469,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007\/revisions\/20469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}