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10 Shillings - George V

Issuer Government of the Falkland Islands
Year 1921-1932
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Obverse description Brown on pale blue guilloche underprint. An intaglio-engraved portrait vignette of King George V in left-facing profile, set within an ornate oval frame surmounted by a royal crown and flanked by foliate scrollwork, occupies the right side of the note. The issuer title THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS is inscribed in bold letterpress across the upper centre, with the legal tender clause below, and the denomination TEN SHILLINGS rendered in a decorative panel at centre-left alongside the numeral 10s. The date and the manuscript signature of the Commissioner of Currency appear in the lower left, with the printer's imprint of Thomas De La Rue & Co., London at the bottom margin.
Obverse lettering THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS
These Notes are Legal Tender for the payment of any amount.
TEN SHILLINGS
For the Government of the Falkland Islands
Commissioner of Currency
THOS DE LA RUE & CO LTD LONDON
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Variants P#1a - 01.02.1921 & 10.01.1927 2
P#1bs - 10.02.1932 1
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