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4 Shillings - George V

Issuer Bahamas Government
Year 1930
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Size 151 × 83 mm
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Obverse description Green intaglio print on a pink underprint with black serial numbers. At right, a left-facing portrait vignette of King George V anchors the composition, while the Bahamian colonial seal — bearing a sailing ship and the motto EXPULSIS PIRATIS RESTITUTA COMMERCIA — occupies the left; a central vignette of palm trees with a sailing vessel bridges the two. The entire design is enclosed within an intricate guilloche border with ornate corner medallions.
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Reverse description Printed entirely in green, the reverse centres on a large vignette of the British Royal coat of arms set within an ornate circular guilloche frame, flanked by two pastoral scenes — a harvesting scene at left and a tropical field landscape at right. The denomination "4/-" appears in elaborate guilloche cartouches at all four corners, with "THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT" inscribed in a bold banner along the lower margin.
Reverse lettering 4/- FOUR SHILLINGS THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT DIEU ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED, LONDON WALL. LONDON, E.C.
(Translation: God and my right. Shamed be whoever thinks ill of it.)
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