10 Shillings - Victoria Blue

The Bank of Nassau was a private institution chartered in the Bahamas, and its note issues from this period occupy a narrow window before the colonial banking landscape consolidated under British-chartered competitors. Charles Skipper & East handled a substantial volume of Caribbean colonial printing in the 1860s and 1870s, and their work for Nassau shows the firm's characteristic attention to intaglio border detail — though the real commercial value of the contract was modest by their standards.

Surviving examples of this series are genuinely rare. The Bahamas carried a small population and low transaction volumes, meaning print runs were limited and few notes survived extended circulation.