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| 表面の説明 | Portrait of King George V in an oval vignette at upper centre, flanked by guilloche rosettes and the numeral '5' in ornate cartouches at left and right. The denomination 'FIVE FLORINS' is printed in large bold letters across the centre, with the title 'THE EAST AFRICAN CURRENCY BOARD' along the top. The lower portion carries the legal tender inscription in English, Arabic, and Amharic scripts, with the place and date of issue 'Mombasa, 1st May, 1920' and member signatures at bottom. |
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| 裏面の説明 | Printed in green on white paper, the reverse is divided into two horizontal registers. The upper register contains a rectangular panel with ornate guilloche border bearing the denomination 'FIVE FLORINS' in white serif lettering on a solid ground. The lower register presents a wide vignette of an East African lion walking left within a central oval medallion, flanked by elaborate guilloche scrollwork and the numeral '5' in circular cartouches at each side. |
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The East African Currency Board was established in 1919 specifically to bring monetary order to a region that had been running on a chaotic mix of rupees, heller notes from the former German East Africa, and various wartime expedients. This 5 Florin note belongs to the Board's first issue — the florin denomination itself was short-lived, dropped in 1921 when the board shifted to a shilling-based system pegged to sterling at 20 shillings to the pound.
Bradbury Wilkinson produced the plates in London. The florin series is genuinely scarce; low original print runs combined with heavy tropical attrition in East Africa's humidity means survivors in any condition are thinly spread across collections.
Pick lists only a handful of confirmed examples.