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10 Dollars
| Issuer | Government of British Honduras |
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| Year | 1910 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1894-1973) |
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| Obverse description | Trial note printed in rose-red on white paper, with an overall geometric guilloche lattice pattern filling the border and background. The centre carries a large dark intaglio panel with the denomination TEN DOLLARS in bold letterpress, flanked by the numeral 10 at each side, above which the issuer's title THE GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH HONDURAS is printed in red across the full width. The date BELIZE, 1ST DECEMBER, 1910 appears below the central panel, with two manuscript signatures at lower right and the legend FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH HONDURAS at lower left; trial serial numbers D 000000 are printed in black at upper left and upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH HONDURAS TEN DOLLARS 10 BELIZE, 1ST DECEMBER, 1910 FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH HONDURAS D 000000 |
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British Honduras issued very few denominations at the ten-dollar level during the early twentieth century, and this 1910 note belongs to a series that was printed in small quantities relative to the lower values — the colony's economy was timber-dependent and wages rarely moved in figures this large. De La Rue produced the plates in London, as they did for the majority of British colonial issues of this period, using their standard intaglio process on cotton stock.
Pick 11A is scarce in any grade. The 1910 date places it squarely in the pre-war period before the mahogany trade collapsed and colonial finances tightened considerably.