1 Pound

Issuer The Bahamas
Year 1919
Type Standard circulation banknote
Value 1 Pound
Currency Pound (Before 1966)
Composition Paper
Size 180 × 77 mm
Shape Rectangular
Printer Canadian Bank Note Company, Canada (1897-date)
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Reference(s) P#4
Obverse description Black print; yellow underprint; red serial numbers. Donkey cart at left, ship seal at centre, bushes at right.
Obverse lettering £1 THE CURRENCY NOTE ACT 1919 THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT HEREBY PROMISES TO PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND ONE POUND SIGILLUM PROVIDENTIA C^ETERARUMQUE BAHAMA INSULARVM EXPULSIS PIRATIS RESTITUTA COMMERCIA 1 COLONIAL SECRETARY, COMMISSIONER OF CURRENCY. RECEIVER GENERAL, COMMISSIONER OF CURRENCY. COMMISSIONER OF CURRENCY
(Translation: Seal of Providence and other Bahamas Islands. Pirates expelled, commerce restored.)
Reverse description Brown print. Value in rosette at left and right.
Reverse lettering £1 ONE POUND THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT
Signature(s) H. E. W. Grant, Percy William Duncombe Armbrister, George Weech, Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns, Walter Kingsbury Moore,
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Numisquare ID 5425452770
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