2 Shillings 6 Pence

Malta's wartime fractional currency was introduced because the disruption of supply chains and hoarding had stripped lower-denomination coinage from circulation almost entirely. These small-format government notes filled a genuine transactional gap during one of the most heavily bombed periods in British imperial history — the Siege of Malta began in 1940, the same year this series was still being issued and put into use.

Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility handled the printing, a reliable wartime choice. The pressing question for collectors is whether examples survived the island's extraordinary wartime destruction.