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1 Pound
| Emittent | Bank of Western Samoa |
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| Jahr | 1959-1961 |
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| Druckerei | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | TERRITORY OF WESTERN SAMOA TREASURY NOTE Legal tender in Western Samoa by the authority of the New Zealand Government. ONE POUND BANK OF WESTERN SAMOA Legal tender in Western Samoa by virtue of the Bank of Western Samoa Ordinance 1959 |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Printed in blue and red on a plain light ground, the reverse displays an elaborate symmetrical guilloche pattern composed of interlocking geometric rosettes and scroll-work corner pieces. A large stylised £1 numeral occupies the central field beneath the legend TREASURY NOTE, with POUND denomination tablets set in decorative cartouches at left and right. The inscriptions TERRITORY OF and WESTERN SAMOA arc above and below the central design respectively. |
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| Anmerkungen |
Western Samoa was still a New Zealand-administered United Nations trust territory when this note circulated — independence came in January 1962, meaning the Bank of Western Samoa was issuing currency under a political arrangement with a defined expiration date. Bradbury Wilkinson, working from their New Malden facility, produced the series during that transitional window, and the pound denomination itself would be short-lived: Western Samoa adopted the tālā and sene system in 1967, rendering the entire pound series obsolete within a decade of issue.
Notes from this period are genuinely scarce in used grades — the island's small population and limited banking infrastructure meant fewer entered everyday circulation.