Catalog
10 Shillings - George VI Red, date at bottom
| Issuer | Bermuda Government |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1158-1970) |
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| Obverse lettering | BERMUDA GOVERNMENT BERMUDA NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT TEN SHILLINGS ISSUED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE BERMUDA LEGISLATURE ASSISTANT COLONIAL TREASURER COLONIAL TREASURER HAMILTON, BERMUDA, 12th MAY, 1937. BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co. Ltd. NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND 10/- |
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| Reverse lettering | TEN SHILLINGS 10/- Honi soit qui mal y pense Dieu et mon droit BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co. Ltd. NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND (Translation: Shamed be whoever thinks ill of it. God and my right.) |
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Bermuda's pre-war government notes were printed under contract by Bradbury, Wilkinson — the same firm responsible for much of Britain's colonial small-format currency through the 1930s. This 1937 issue predates the wartime emergency overprints and currency controls that would complicate Bermuda's dollar-sterling relationship from 1940 onward.
The "date at bottom" designation distinguishes it from earlier placement variants within the series — a cataloger's distinction, but one that matters for the P#10 attribution specifically.