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100 Shillings / 5 Pounds - George V
| Emittent | East African Currency Board |
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| Jahr | 1921 |
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| Referenz(en) | P#16 |
| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | The obverse is dominated by an intricate guilloche underprint in green and brown tones, with the denomination numeral '100' at the lower left corner. A fine intaglio portrait vignette of King George V in right-facing profile is set within an oval frame at the upper right. The centre bears the bilingual value inscription in English and Arabic/Swahili script, with the issuing authority's title across the top panel, the place and date of issue 'Mombasa 15th December 1921' at lower centre, and three manuscript signatures of Members of the East African Currency Board below. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rückseitenlegende | ONE HUNDRED SHILLINGS OR FIVE POUNDS ONE HUNDRED SHILLINGS OR FIVE POUNDS |
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| Anmerkungen |
The East African Currency Board was established in 1919 to provide a unified currency across British East Africa — Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, and Zanzibar among the territories covered. This note predates the formal separation of the shilling and pound denominations that would come with later series; the dual-denomination format reflects genuine uncertainty in the early 1920s about which unit of account would dominate trade, given the pound's grip on merchant bookkeeping versus the shilling's everyday utility.
Pick 16 is among the rarest surviving issues from the Board's first decade. De La Rue's production records indicate low print runs for the highest denominations in this series, and few reached general circulation — most were used in interbank settlements.