2 Shillings 6 Pence - George V

Jamaica's 2s/6d notes of this period were emergency fractional currency, issued because the First World War had disrupted the supply of silver coin to the colonies. The Colonial Office authorized these small-denomination paper issues across several Caribbean territories simultaneously — a coordinated response to a coinage shortage that showed no sign of resolving itself mid-war.

De La Rue's production for Jamaica in this format is relatively scarce in surviving collections, likely because low-denomination notes of this size were heavily used and discarded rather than retained.