10 Shillings

Issuer	Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony Government
Year	1942
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Shape	Rectangular
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Obverse description	Plain cream-coloured note of typewritten emergency issue format, with the heading GILBERT AND ELLICE ISLANDS COLONY in bold uppercase across the top centre. The denomination TEN SHILLINGS is set in bold letterpress at centre, flanked on both sides by the numeral denomination 10s. 0d., with the date 1st January, 1942 at lower left. A circular embossed colony seal is visible to the left, and two manuscript signatures appear at lower right above the printed titles Acting Resident Commissioner and Treasurer respectively.
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Reverse description	The reverse is entirely plain, printed on unadorned cream paper with no design elements, vignettes, or printed text. A faint embossed circular seal impression is discernible at centre-right, bleeding through from the obverse. The surface shows the characteristic creasing and aging of a wartime emergency issue.
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Protection description	Circular embossed dry seal of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony impressed into the paper at left of centre on the obverse.
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