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1 Dollar
| Issuer | Government of Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Year | 1929-1932 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue, the obverse bears a central vignette of the Landing of Columbus at left, with figures in period dress disembarking from a vessel, set against a tropical landscape with palm trees and a harbour scene at right. The denomination ONE DOLLAR is inscribed within an oval guilloche panel at centre, above the date and place of issue PORT OF SPAIN, with the heading THE GOVERNMENT OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO across the top and the promise text PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF above the denomination. Three Commissioner of Currency signature lines appear across the lower portion, with alphanumeric serial numbers in red at upper left and upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE GOVERNMENT OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF ONE DOLLAR PORT OF SPAIN COMMISSIONER OF CURRENCY THOMAS DELARUE & COMPANY, LIMITED, LONDON THE LANDING OF COLUMBUS |
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The Government of Trinidad and Tobago — not the colony's commercial banks — issued this dollar directly under Crown authority, a practice already becoming unusual by the late 1920s as regional currency boards consolidated control across British Caribbean territories. De La Rue's London presses handled the work, as they did for most of Britain's colonial paper at this period.
The series spans a narrow four-year window and was superseded by the British Caribbean Currency Board issues that gradually absorbed individual colonial emissions across the region. Notes that circulated in Trinidad's oil-boom economy of the early 1930s often show heavy wear through the centre fold.