Catalog
1 Pound
| Issuer | Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands |
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| Year | 1903 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue and Company Limited, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse lettering | The Government of the Turks & Caicos Islands PROMISES TO PAY TO BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF ONE POUND FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS DIRECTORS OF CURRENCY THOMAS DE LA RUE AND COMPANY LIMITED |
| Reverse description | Unprinted plain white paper reverse, with a faint ghost impression of the obverse guilloche and border design visible through the sheet. |
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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.