Catalog
1 Dollar
| Issuer | British Caribbean Territories Currency Board |
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| Year | 1950-1951 |
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| Size | 156 x 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | At right, an oval intaglio vignette contains a three-quarter portrait of King George VI against a fine guilloche underprint in rose-red. To the left, a large vignette shows an unfurled scroll overlaid on a map of the Caribbean Islands, with a tropical coastal scene in the background. The note bears three manuscript signature lines captioned MEMBER, CHAIRMAN, and MEMBER of the Currency Board, with the date of issue inscribed at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN TERRITORIES / EASTERN GROUP / ONE DOLLAR / FOR THE CURRENCY BOARD |
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The British Caribbean Territories Eastern Group Currency Board was established in 1950 to provide a unified currency across a cluster of British colonial possessions — Barbados, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Windward Islands. This Pick 1 dollar is the founding issue of that arrangement, printed by Bradbury Wilkinson in the same two-year window the board itself came into existence.
British Honduras was dropped from the union almost immediately, in 1949 before the board formally issued notes, and British Guiana followed in 1951. The 1950–1951 date range on this type therefore captures the brief moment when the board's full intended membership was still nominally intact.