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| 表面の銘文 | 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.) |
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| 裏面の銘文 | TEN SHILLINGS THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT 10/- |
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The Bahamas Government issued this note under the Currency Act of 1919, which established a formal government currency for the islands separate from the commercial bank notes that had previously circulated alongside British sterling. The Canadian Bank Note Company had by this point become a preferred printer for British colonial currencies across the Caribbean — cost, security, and reliable intaglio quality all factored into those relationships.
The 10 Shillings denomination was always the awkward middle ground in Bahamian currency, too small for substantial transactions but too large for everyday trade. Surviving examples from this 1919 issue are genuinely rare; the tropical humidity of the islands destroyed most notes in circulation, and the quantities originally printed were modest.