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20 Dollars
| Issuer | Government of Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio-printed note with a central vignette of a sailing vessel at anchor in a harbor to the left, and a palm tree with a sailing ship in the background at right. Intricate guilloche underprint frames the composition, with the denomination and issuer inscriptions rendered in crisp letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green, the reverse is dominated by a central oval vignette bearing the British Royal Arms — a crowned shield supported by a lion and a unicorn with the motto DIEU ET MON DROIT below — set within an elaborate guilloche border. The legend THE GOVERNMENT OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO arches across the top, while the numeral 20 appears in ornate guilloche medallions at the left and right flanks. The printer's imprint of Thomas De La Rue & Company Limited, London, is present at the lower centre. |
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Trinidad and Tobago's wartime currency administration sat under British colonial authority, and the 1943 issue reflects the logistical pressures of the period — De La Rue in London continued printing for numerous colonial dependencies simultaneously, which occasionally produced supply delays and batch inconsistencies across different denominations in this series.
Pick 10 is among the scarcer wartime colonial issues from the Caribbean, partly because the total print runs were modest and partly because notes that survived active circulation in the humid tropical climate rarely did so intact.