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1 Pound - Island of Newfoundland

Issuer Island of Newfoundland
Year 1850
Type Standard circulation banknote
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Obverse lettering ISLAND OF NEWFOUNDLAND
By Law. The Bearer of this Note is entitled to receive at the TREASURY the sum of One Pound Currency IN SPECIE
Dated at St. John's Newfoundland
TREASURER
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Variants P#A3Aa - 2 signatures
P#A3Ab - 3 signatures
P#A3A3 - unsigned remainder
Comments

Newfoundland did not join Canadian Confederation until 1949, and in 1850 it was operating as a British self-governing colony with its own treasury and chronic shortage of reliable circulating currency. This note predates the colony's first formal Currency Act by several years, placing it among the earliest attempts by the Newfoundland government to issue paper money on its own authority rather than relying on merchant scrip or imported colonial instruments.

Whitehead, Morris & Co. had not yet become the dominant security printer they would later be — their 1850 work for Newfoundland is among their earlier documented government commissions.

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