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1 Dollar Government of Newfoundland, Cash Note
| Issuer | Government of Newfoundland |
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| Year | 1910-1914 |
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| Size | 183 × 87 mm |
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| Obverse description | Waterfalls |
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| Variants | P#A11 - double year date 1910-11 P#A11 - double year date 1911-12 P#A11 - double year date 1912-13 P#A11 - double year date 1913-14 |
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Newfoundland retained its own currency and financial administration until Confederation in 1949, and these early cash notes predate even the island's fiscal collapse of the 1930s that ultimately ended self-governance. The Government of Newfoundland issued directly rather than through a chartered bank — an arrangement reflecting both the small scale of the colony's banking infrastructure and a long-standing public distrust of private note issue after several bank failures in the 1890s.
Whitehead, Morris & Co. had a solid reputation for colonial and dominion currency work out of London, though they are less prominent in philatelic literature than contemporaries like Bradbury Wilkinson. Pick lists this as A11, the provisional designation indicating attribution was settled after the main sequence — documentation for Newfoundland issues of this period is notoriously patchy.