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20 Shillings / 1 Pound - George V
| Issuer | East African Currency Board |
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| Year | 1933 |
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| Value | 20 Shillings |
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| Reverse lettering | TWENTY SHILLINGS OR ONE POUND TWENTY SHILLINGS OR ONE POUND |
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| Protection description | Watermarked paper |
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The East African Currency Board was a colonial monetary authority covering Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika — a single issuer serving territories under separate administrative arrangements. The 1933 date places this note squarely in the Depression years, when commodity prices for cotton and sisal had collapsed and the region's export economy was under severe strain. Demand for circulating currency was correspondingly low, and print runs for this period were modest.
De La Rue had held the East African contract for decades, and the P#22 series continued that relationship without interruption. Notes from the early 1930s are notably scarcer than later wartime issues, which were produced in far greater volume to meet military and administrative needs from 1940 onward.