Red print; yellow underprint; black serial numbers. Front-left facing bust of King George V at right, sailing ship seal at left, palm trees and ship at centre.
Reverse description
Red print. British coat of arms at centre. Value in corners.
Signature(s)
Charles Cecil Farquharson Dundas, Stafford Lomax, Walter Kingsbury Moore,
Protection type
Protection description
Obverse lettering
10/-
THE CURRENCY ACT OF 1919
THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT
HEREBY PROMISES TO PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND
TEN
SHILLINGS
EXPULSIS PIRATIS RESTITUTA COMMERCIA
ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY, COMMISSIONER OF CURRENCY
RECEIVER GENERAL, COMMISSIONER OF CURRENCY
COMMISSIONER OF CURRENCY
WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED, LONDON WALL. LONDON, E.C. (Translation: Pirates expelled, commerce restored.)
Reverse lettering
10/-
TEN SHILLINGS
THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT
DIEU ET MON DROIT
HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED, LONDON WALL. LONDON, E.C. (Translation: God and my right. Shamed be whoever thinks ill of it.)