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5 Pounds
| Issuer | Government of Malta |
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| Year | 1961-1963 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Reverse description | A panoramic intaglio vignette of Grand Harbour, Valletta, rendered in blue tones, showing the fortified waterfront with limestone buildings and bastions receding along the coastline to the right. The denomination '£5' in stylised script appears at lower left, with 'FIVE POUNDS' in serif lettering at lower right. The issuer title 'GOVERNMENT OF MALTA' is printed across the upper right. |
| Reverse lettering | GOVERNMENT OF MALTA £5 FIVE POUNDS |
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Malta was still a British Crown Colony when this note circulated, and the Government of Malta — rather than a central bank — remained the direct issuing authority, a colonial-era arrangement that persisted well into the independence transition. Bradbury Wilkinson, the New Malden firm responsible for a substantial portion of British colonial currency production in the postwar decades, handled the printing here as they did for much of the series.
Independence came in September 1964, rendering these notes politically anomalous almost immediately. The Central Bank of Malta was not established until 1968, so the Government continued issuing currency through that gap — which partly explains the relatively extended date range for a colonial high-denomination note.