Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
2 Shillings and 6 Pence
| Issuer | Government of Grenada |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 2 Shillings and 6 Pence (2.5) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Red on olive-green underprint. The denomination '2/6' appears at centre, flanked by guilloche panels, with a portrait of King George V at right. Issuing authority and legal tender text inscribed across the face, with date and place of issue at lower centre. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | The Government of GRENADA These Notes are Legal Tender for the payment of any amount. 2/6 TWO SHILLINGS AND SIX PENCE St. George's 1st July 1920 |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Grenada's first government-issued paper money came out of emergency provisions passed across several British Caribbean colonies during and immediately after World War One, when silver coinage became scarce and hoarding made circulation worse. The 2/6 denomination — half a crown in sterling terms — was a practical bridge between coins and higher paper values, chosen because it matched common wage and transaction amounts in the island economy at the time.
De La Rue produced the series, as they did for the vast majority of British colonial currency of this period. Pick 1 is the only note in Grenada's standalone government issue — the colony never developed a larger domestic paper currency series.