10 Shillings Government Issue

Obverse description	Green on blue underprint. A central portrait vignette presents the effigy of King George V facing left. The text block below identifies the issuing authority and denomination, with the date of issue inscribed as 1st October 1920 at Castries.
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Reverse description	Printed in purple. At centre, within a circular guilloche pattern, appears a vignette derived from the island's colonial badge: the twin volcanic peaks of Gros Piton and Petit Piton rise above a harbour foreground in which four sailing vessels ride at anchor; the sun is shown rising to the right. The Royal Ensign flies from the left pier and the Red Ensign from the right pier. The colony's Latin motto appears below the central vignette.
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Comments	Saint Lucia's 1920 government currency issues — this 10 Shillings among them — were produced under the Colonial Treasury system, at a point when the island had no formal banking authority of its own capable of issuing notes. Thomas De La Rue handled the printing, as they did for the vast majority of British Caribbean colonial issues of this period. Pick 2 is genuinely scarce. The small population of Saint Lucia meant issue quantities were low, and surviving examples in any condition are rarely encountered at auction.