Catalog
20 Pounds - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Government of Gibraltar |
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| Year | 1975-1986 |
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| Currency | Pound (decimalized, 1971-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF GIBRALTAR UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE CURRENCY NOTE ORDINANCE CAP 39 CURRENCY NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER IN GIBRALTAR FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT TWENTY POUNDS GIBRALTAR FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT SECRETARY |
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| Reverse lettering | TWENTY POUNDS £20 |
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Gibraltar's Government Note Issues of this period occupied an unusual constitutional space — the territory maintained its own currency distinct from sterling despite a fixed 1:1 parity, a deliberate assertion of local administrative identity that successive governors had to navigate carefully with the Treasury in London. De La Rue printed the entire series, as they had done for Gibraltar since the colonial note issues of the 1930s.
The P#23 series ran across more than a decade without a design change, which is itself telling — the political temperature around Gibraltar's status, particularly after Spain closed the border in 1969, made continuity a conscious institutional choice.