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| Issuer | Bahamas Government |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, Limited, London |
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| Obverse description | Red intaglio print over a yellow guilloche underprint, with black serial numbers. At right, a portrait vignette of Queen Elizabeth II facing three-quarters left, wearing the King George IV State Diadem. The ship seal of the Bahamas appears at left, with the central watermark area left unprinted. |
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| Reverse lettering | TEN SHILLINGS THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT 10/- DIEU ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE (Translation: God and my right. Shamed be whoever thinks ill of it.) |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the central unprinted area of both obverse and reverse |
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