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4 Shillings - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Bahamas Government |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Green print throughout. The British Royal coat of arms occupies the left portion of the note, with the denomination numerals and text at right. A blank watermark area is reserved at centre, framed by guilloche ornamental work. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Bahamas Government series of which this note forms part was issued under Crown authority rather than through a central bank — the Bahamas would not establish the Central Bank until 1974. The four-shilling denomination itself is a curiosity: it equated to one-fifth of a Bahamian pound, preserving a duodecimal logic already being phased out across much of the sterling area by the early 1950s.
De La Rue's watermark security on this series is relatively modest by their standards of the period. The denomination was discontinued well before the 1966 decimal transition that replaced the pound system with dollars and cents, making circulated survivors of this specific value scarcer than the higher denominations from the same issue.