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10 Dollars Purple
| Issuer | Government of British Honduras |
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| Year | 1924-1928 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Purple intaglio print over a green and yellow guilloche underprint with red serial numbers. The colonial coat of arms of British Honduras occupies the top centre, flanked by denomination and issuer inscriptions in a formal letterpress arrangement characteristic of early twentieth-century De La Rue colonial issues. The promise-to-pay text, place of issue, and Commissioners of Currency attribution are laid out in structured typographic registers across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in purple, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate symmetric guilloche composition of three large interlocking rosette medallions joined by scrollwork borders and lathe-work fillets. The country name is distributed across two cartouches at the left and right flanks, each set within an ornate lozenge surround, with delicate floral arabesques occupying the intervening spaces. |
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| Variants | P#17 - 01.05.1924 P#17 - 01.10.1928 |
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