Catalog
10 Shillings
| Issuer | Government of the British Solomon Islands |
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| Year | 1916-1932 |
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| Value | 10 Shillings (1/2) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing the plain pink-tinted paper stock with no design elements, legends, or vignettes. |
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| Variants | P#2a - 18.12.1916, 27.07.1921 & 02.01.1926 P#2b - 30.06.1932 not issued |
| Comments |
The British Solomon Islands Protectorate had no chartered bank of its own during this period, so the colonial government stepped in directly as issuer — an arrangement that was common across the smaller Pacific dependencies where the volume of monetary transactions simply didn't justify a full banking infrastructure. These notes circulated in a territory where copra trade and plantation labour accounts made up the bulk of commercial activity.
Pick 2 is genuinely rare. The sixteen-year date span masks what was almost certainly a very limited print run, and attrition in the humid equatorial Pacific was brutal on paper currency.