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10 Shillings - George V
| Issuer | Government of Jamaica |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and centres on a large intaglio vignette of a standing lion within an ornate wreath of leaves and scrollwork. The denomination legend is set in a rectangular panel below the central vignette, with two rosette guilloche medallions bearing the value numeral flanking the composition on either side. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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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.