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4 Shillings - George V
| Issuer | Bahamas Government |
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| 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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