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1 Pound
| Issuer | Government of Samoa |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is arranged with two oval vignettes at left — the upper showing a Samoan figure with companions in a landscape, the lower with a coastal tropical scene including palm trees — each framed within guilloche borders. The central text panel carries a promise-to-pay clause, date and place of issue (Apia), serial number appearing twice, and the large intaglio denomination ONE POUND. Corner numerals '1' appear within ornate cartouches, and a handwritten signature of the Administrator appears at lower right above 'GOVERNMENT OF SAMOA'. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANK OF NEW ZEALAND |
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The Government of Samoa series of 1920 was issued under New Zealand administration, which had governed the territory as a League of Nations mandate since occupying it from Germany in 1914. New Zealand's administration printed these notes to replace the German colonial currency that had circulated under the Deutsche Handels- und Plantagen-Gesellschaft system — a practical necessity, but also a deliberate assertion of administrative control over the islands.
P#2 is genuinely rare. The entire issue had extremely limited distribution across a small island population, and surviving examples in any grade are seldom seen at auction.