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1 Dollar Government Issue
| Issuer | Government of British Guiana |
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| Year | 1920-1924 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse description | Red-brown note with a sailing ship vignette at left, surrounded by intricate guilloche underprint. Black serial numbers, issue date, and two manuscript signatures appear across the face. The heading THE GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH GUIANA is printed at top, with the promise-to-pay text and denomination ONE DOLLAR indicated at centre and corners. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red-brown, the reverse is dominated by a central circular vignette of a sailing ship at sea, enclosed within an elaborate guilloche border bearing the colony's motto. The vignette is flanked on both sides by large symmetrical rosette guilloche ornaments, with further intricate lathe-work filling the remaining field. |
| Reverse lettering | DAMUS PETIMUSQUE VICISSIM (Translation: WE GIVE AND WE ASK IN RETURN) |
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