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10 Shillings - George V
| Issuer | East African Currency Board |
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| Year | 1933 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on a pale ground, the obverse carries the denomination in English, Arabic, and Hindi script at centre-left, with a circular intaglio portrait vignette of King George V in right profile at the lower right. The issuer title appears within an ornate guilloche panel at the top, with the legal tender clause and place of issue inscribed below the denomination. Three manuscript signatures of Currency Board officials appear at lower centre, with the date "1st January 1933" and "Nairobi" printed below. |
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The East African Currency Board was a colonial monetary authority covering Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, and Zanzibar — a single currency zone covering territories under several distinct administrative arrangements. The 1933 date places this note in the depths of the global depression, when demand for East African exports collapsed and currency circulation contracted sharply across the region.
De La Rue produced the entire EACB series through this period, with the George V portrait notes being superseded relatively quickly after the king's death in 1936. P#21 is among the scarcer issues in the board's output — surviving examples in any usable grade are genuinely difficult to source.