1 Shilling Overprint

Issuer	Government of Malta
Year	1940
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Printer	Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom
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Obverse description	Portrait of King George V in an ornate oval vignette at right, with a guilloche underprint across the face. The note is a 1 Shilling overprint on an earlier 2 Shillings issue, with red overprint text cancelling the original denomination and substituting the new value; a date and two manuscript signatures of the Commissioners of Currency appear at lower centre. Serial number printed in red at upper left and lower right.
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Reverse description	Central vignette of an eight-pointed Maltese cross rendered in fine guilloche lacework, set within an elaborate symmetrical blue underprint of interlocking rosettes and scroll patterns. The original denomination TWO SHILLINGS appears in a panel at bottom centre, with the overprinted value -( ONE SHILLING )- below it in red. Corner numerals repeat the original and overprinted values.
Reverse lettering	TWO SHILLINGS -( ONE SHILLING )- 1/- 2/-
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