Catalog
10 Shillings
| Issuer | Government of the Leeward Islands |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Shillings (1/2) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in orange on plain paper, the reverse centres on a large oval vignette of the Leeward Islands colonial coat of arms, enclosed within an ornate cartouche of scrollwork and floral ornaments. Rectangular denomination panels inscribed "10/-" appear in guilloche frames at the left and right extremities, balancing the central armorial device. |
| Reverse lettering | 10/- |
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The Leeward Islands currency board arrangement was one of the more administratively awkward in the British Caribbean — a single issuing authority covering Antigua, St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, Montserrat, Dominica, and the British Virgin Islands simultaneously, each with its own local economy and trade patterns. The 10 Shillings denomination was the workhorse of this series, bridging the gap between coin values and the larger pound notes that most ordinary transactions never reached.
De La Rue printed the series in London, which meant any replacement stock required a transatlantic requisition cycle — slow enough that wartime and interwar shortages created genuine gaps in local supply. Pick 2 is notably scarcer than the 1 Pound from the same issue.