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Gray, green, and orange letterpress print on a multicolour guilloche underprint, with red serial numbers. A front-facing portrait bust of King George VI is positioned at the right, while the Coat of Arms of British Honduras occupies the left vignette. The denomination $10 appears in the lower corners, with the issuing authority and legal tender inscription across the upper and lower registers. |
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The reverse is printed in green, orange, and brown on a multicolour guilloche underprint. The central design consists of an elaborate engine-turned geometric panel bearing the issuer's name in bold serif lettering within an ornate cartouche. Symmetrical rosette guilloche medallions are positioned at the left and right flanks, creating a highly decorative overall composition. |
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British Honduras operated on a dollar pegged to the British West Indian dollar and, through it, to sterling — meaning this high-denomination note existed primarily for commercial and intercolonial transfers rather than everyday trade in a colony where most transactions ran well below a dollar. The 1947–1951 window brackets the period of postwar austerity in Britain, which had a direct knock-on effect on colonial currency orders: De La Rue was managing backlogs across multiple territories simultaneously, and British Honduras was a low-priority client.
P#27 is the scarcer of the George VI dollar issues from this issuer, with the ten-dollar face value limiting its practical circulation to merchants and government offices. The gray colorway distinguishes it from the earlier wartime issues in the series.