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10 Shillings - George V
| Issuer | Government of Jamaica |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 Shillings (1/2) |
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| Obverse lettering | JAMAICA TEN SHILLING CURRENCY NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT TEN SHILLINGS ISSUED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF LAW 27 OF 1904 & LAW 17 OF 1918 ISLAND TREASURER |
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Jamaica's Government issued treasury notes during WWI partly because the war disrupted the normal supply of coin from Britain and created acute small-denomination shortages across the Caribbean. This 10 Shilling note belongs to that emergency series, authorized under wartime financial pressure rather than through any planned currency reform.
De La Rue printed the series in London, which itself introduced risk — transatlantic shipping in 1917–18 was genuinely dangerous, and note shipments to colonial governments were occasionally lost or delayed to U-boat activity.