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1 Pound
| Issuer | Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands |
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| Year | 1903 |
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| Size | 181 × 84.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | Pink on pale blue-green guilloche underprint. The issuer title arches across the upper field flanking a central crowned coat of arms vignette, with the denomination ONE POUND set in a bold rectangular panel at centre; sterling pound signs appear in ornate cartouches at left and right. Intricate letterpress lace-work borders frame all four sides, with serial numbers in the upper corners and manuscript date and Directors of Currency signatures in the lower portion. |
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| Variants | P#3a - 02.12.1903 P#3b - 12.11.1918 |
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One of the earliest paper issues for the Turks and Caicos Islands, which at the turn of the twentieth century remained a separate Crown Colony — administratively distinct from Jamaica, despite periodic pressure to amalgamate the two. The note predates the formal union with the Bahamas by decades, issued at a moment when the salt-raking industry still underpinned most of the colony's economic activity.
De La Rue's involvement is unsurprising given their near-monopoly on British colonial currency printing at the time. Surviving examples are rare; tiny colonial populations meant limited print runs, and tropical storage conditions have not been kind to the paper.