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10 Shillings - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Isle of Man Government |
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| Year | 1961-1967 |
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| Value | 10 Shillings (1/2) |
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| Reverse lettering | TEN SHILLINGS 10 JOHN H. NICHOLSON, R.I. PINX BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co Ltd NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Bradbury Wilkinson produced this note for the Isle of Man Government at their New Malden works, using a plate design credited to John H. Nicholson — relatively uncommon for BW to have a named designer on record for a small-territory issue. The serial numbering tells a precise administrative story: Lieutenant Governor Garvey's signature covers well over a million notes across the plain and A-prefix runs, while Stallard's tenure picks up mid-series at A250001, meaning the changeover was purely an administrative one, not a new printing cycle.
The 1967 endpoint coincides with British decimalization discussions gaining serious momentum, and the Isle of Man phased out its shilling denominations shortly after.