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10 Shillings
| Issuer | Central Bank of Nigeria |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Value | 10 Shillings (1/2) |
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| Obverse description | A central vignette presents the multi-storey Central Bank of Nigeria headquarters building set against a fine guilloche underprint in olive-green tones. The denomination 10/- appears at upper left and lower left corners, with an unprinted circular watermark zone to the right. Arabic script rendering of the denomination is inscribed along the lower right margin, with three facsimile signature panels below the central vignette. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Nigeria's transition from the West African Currency Board to its own central banking infrastructure was completed in stages after independence. This 10 Shillings note belongs to the first independent Nigerian series — issued before the country decimalized in 1973 — and reflects the brief window during which Nigeria retained colonial-era denominations while establishing its own monetary identity under the 1958 Central Bank of Nigeria Act.
De La Rue printed the entire inaugural series, a relationship that would later become politically complicated during the Biafran secession when questions arose about which authority could legitimately commission banknote production.