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1 Pound
| Issuer | Government of Malta |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in three-quarter view to the left occupies the right portion of the note, set against a fine guilloche underprint in brown tones. A central vignette presents the George Cross within an ornate guilloche frame, flanked by the pound sterling symbol at lower left and the numeral '1' at upper and lower right. The note is printed in intaglio in shades of brown and lilac, with the issuing authority's legal tender inscription running across the lower central field. |
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| Reverse description | A sweeping panoramic vignette occupies the central field, rendered in brown intaglio, presenting an aerial view of the Marsa Industrial Estate with its long factory buildings in the foreground and the urban skyline of Valletta visible on the hillside in the distance. The pound sterling symbol appears at lower left, with decorative guilloche borders framing the entire composition. The printer's imprint is visible in small letterpress text along the lower edge. |
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Malta was still a British colony when this note was issued — independence came in September 1964, meaning P#26 was printed and circulated under Crown rule. The Bradbury Wilkinson contract was a holdover from earlier colonial issues, and the firm's New Malden facility had been handling British imperial paper for decades by this point.
The watermark construction on this series is relatively simple by Bradbury Wilkinson's standards. Post-independence issues would eventually transition to the Central Bank of Malta, making the 1963 Government of Malta pound one of the last in the colonial sequence.