10 Shillings

Issuer The Bahamas
Year 1919
Type Standard circulation banknote
Value 10 Shillings (1/2)
Currency Pound (Before 1966)
Composition Paper
Size 182 × 78 mm
Shape Rectangular
Printer Canadian Bank Note Company, Canada (1897-date)
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Reference(s) P#3
Obverse description Black print; red and yellow underprint; red serial numbers. Donkey cart at left. Ship seal at centre. Bushes at right.
Obverse lettering 10/- THE CURRENCY NOTE ACT 1919 THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT HEREBY PROMISES TO PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND TEN SHILLINGS SIGILLUM PROVIDENTIA C^ETERARUMQUE BAHAMA INSULARVM EXPULSIS PIRATIS RESTITUTA COMMERCIA TEN 10 COLONIAL SECRETARY, COMMISSIONER OF CURRENCY. RECEIVER GENERAL, COMMISSIONER OF CURRENCY. COMMISSIONER OF CURRENCY
(Translation: Seal of Providence and other Bahamas Islands. Pirates expelled, commerce restored.)
Reverse description Red print. Value in rosette at left and right.
Reverse lettering TEN SHILLINGS THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT 10/-
Signature(s) H. E. W. Grant, Percy William Duncombe Armbrister, George Weech, Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns, Walter Kingsbury Moore,
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Numisquare ID 7065884840
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