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10 Pounds - Elizabeth II George Augustus Eliott
| Emittent | Government of Gibraltar |
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| Jahr | 1995-2006 |
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| Währung | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in intaglio at right, with fine guilloche underprint in peach and blue tones across the centre. The Gibraltar coat of arms — a castle above a key, with the motto MONTIS INSIGNIA CALPE — appears at left within a gold-bordered shield, alongside the denomination TEN POUNDS STERLING in large ornate lettering. A vignette of a historical cannon occupies the lower centre, the issuer title GOVERNMENT OF GIBRALTAR is inscribed at top in Gothic script, and a circular optically variable security device is present at lower right. |
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| Rückseitenlegende | GOVERNMENT of GIBRALTAR Ten Pounds STERLING GENERAL ELIOTT THE GREAT SIEGE, 1779-83 £10 10 |
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Gibraltar's currency has a peculiar constitutional status — the Government of Gibraltar issues its own notes, but they circulate alongside sterling at parity, backed by reserves held in London. That arrangement dates to the Currency Notes Ordinance of 1934 and has never meaningfully changed, which gives these notes an odd dual identity: legally distinct from Bank of England issue, practically interchangeable.
George Augustus Eliott commanded the garrison during the Great Siege of 1779–1783, when Spanish and French forces blockaded the Rock for nearly four years without success. His inclusion here is a matter of local pride rather than numismatic convention — few British Overseas Territory notes commemorate a military figure over a reigning monarch as the thematic anchor of a high-denomination issue.
De La Rue printed the series across an eleven-year window, a span that typically implies multiple print runs with minor security specification updates.