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10 Pounds - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Bermuda Government |
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| Year | 1964 |
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| Reference(s) | P#22 |
| Obverse description | Purple intaglio print on multicolour guilloche underprint with black serial numbers. At right, a bust portrait of Queen Elizabeth II facing three-quarters left, wearing the King George IV State Diadem. At left, a vignette of a map of Bermuda with the denomination inscribed above. |
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| Reverse lettering | TEN POUNDS ₤10 QUO FATA FERUNT BRADBURY WILKINSON & Co. Ld. NEW MALDEN, SURREY, LONDON (Translation: Whither the fates carry us.) |
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Bermuda's 1964 note issue was the last series authorized directly by the Bermuda Government before the Bermuda Monetary Authority took over currency functions in 1969. The £10 was the highest denomination in that final government series, which makes surviving examples less common than the lower values — high-denomination notes in small island economies circulate hard and are rarely set aside.
Bradbury Wilkinson printed from their New Malden works, which handled a substantial proportion of British colonial currency through the 1960s. The watermark remains the principal security feature, as was typical for BW&Co. colonial contracts of this period before more elaborate intaglio security elements became standard across the region.