4 Shillings

€2.00
IssuerThe Bahamas
Year1919
TypeStandard circulation banknote
Value4 Shillings (1/5)
CurrencyPound (Before 1966)
CompositionPaper
Size182 × 78 mm
ShapeRectangular
PrinterCanadian Bank Note Company, Canada (1897-date)
No. printed
Designer(s)
Engraver(s)
In circulation to
Reference(s) P#2
Obverse descriptionBlack print; green underprint; red serial number with prefix A or without prefix.  Donkey cart at left. Ship seal at centre. Bushes at right.
Reverse descriptionGreen print.  Value in rosette at left and right.
Signature(s)H. E. W. Grant, Percy William Duncombe Armbrister, George Weech, Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns, Walter Kingsbury Moore,
Protection type
Protection description
Obverse lettering4/- THE CURRENCY NOTE ACT 1919 THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT HEREBY PROMISES TO PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND FOUR SHILLINGS SIGILLUM PROVIDENTIA C^ETERARUMQUE BAHAMA INSULARVM EXPULSIS PIRATIS RESTITUTA COMMERCIA FOUR 4 COLONIAL SECRETARY, COMMISSIONER OF CURRENCY. RECEIVER GENERAL, COMMISSIONER OF CURRENCY. COMMISSIONER OF CURRENCY
(Translation: Seal of Providence and other Bahamas Islands. Pirates expelled, commerce restored.)
Reverse letteringFOUR SHILLINGS THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT 4/-
VariantsSignatures 2007: Hamad Ibn Saud Al Sayari; Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Assaf. 2009: Muhammad Al Jasser; Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Assaf. 2012: Fahad Al Mubarak; Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Assaf.
Catalog ID1541586580
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