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10 Shillings - George VI
| Issuer | East African Currency Board |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1921-1967) |
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| Obverse lettering | THE EAST AFRICAN CURRENCY BOARD TEN SHILLINGS THESE NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT NAIROBI MEMBERS OF THE EAST AFRICAN CURRENCY BOARD |
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| Reverse lettering | TEN SHILLINGS TEN SHILLINGS |
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The East African Currency Board was a colonial monetary authority serving British East Africa, covering Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, and Zanzibar under a single circulating currency. The 1939 date places this note at the outbreak of the Second World War, which severely disrupted normal supply from De La Rue in London — subsequent wartime issues required stopgap printing arrangements and simplified designs. This earlier example predates those compromises.
P#26B is distinguished from P#26A by the signature combination. Wartime hoarding and the general attrition of tropical climates make surviving examples in better grades considerably less common than the catalog frequency suggests.