10 Shillings - George V

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.