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| Issuer | East African Currency Board |
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| Year | 1961-1963 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1921-1967) |
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| Obverse lettering | EAST AFRICAN CURRENCY BOARD TEN SHILLINGS LEGAL TENDER FOR TEN SHILLINGS MEMBERS OF EAST AFRICAN CURRENCY BOARD |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse is organised around an elaborate symmetrical vignette of two large stylised fan-shaped palm frond sprays tied at the base, flanking a circular unprinted watermark void at centre. A fine intaglio vignette of a flowering branch with blossoms and foliage appears above the tie point, while the numeral "10" is set in ornate cartouches at each of the four corners against a guilloche background. |
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| Protection description | A lion's head watermark, visible in the unprinted circular void at the centre of both the obverse and reverse. |
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