By 1960, Jamaica was still three years from independence, and this note remained anchored to the Crown — George VI had died in 1952, yet his portrait continued circulating on Jamaican currency well into the following decade through unchanged plate stock. De La Rue held the printing contract throughout the colonial period, and the consistency of their production means surviving examples rarely show the kind of plate deterioration or ink variation that makes late-colonial Caribbean issues interesting to specialists.
P#47 is the last substantive issue of the colonial 1 Pound before the series was retired ahead of independence and, eventually, decimalization in 1969.
By 1960, Jamaica was still three years from independence, and this note remained anchored to the Crown — George VI had died in 1952, yet his portrait continued circulating on Jamaican currency well into the following decade through unchanged plate stock. De La Rue held the printing contract throughout the colonial period, and the consistency of their production means surviving examples rarely show the kind of plate deterioration or ink variation that makes late-colonial Caribbean issues interesting to specialists.
P#47 is the last substantive issue of the colonial 1 Pound before the series was retired ahead of independence and, eventually, decimalization in 1969.