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5 Pounds
| Issuer | States of Guernsey |
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| Year | 1991-1995 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of Fountain Street, St. Peter Port, flanked by decorative guilloche borders; at right, a portrait vignette associated with Thomas de la Rue, with an illustration of an envelope-making machine at lower right. Ornamental lettering and historical annotations reference the founding dates of the de la Rue enterprise. |
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| Variants | P#53a - signature: M. J. Brown P#53b - signature: D. P. Trestain |
| Comments |
Guernsey's banknotes have always occupied an odd constitutional space — the island issues its own currency under Crown Dependency status, with no obligation to mirror Bank of England designs or timelines. The P#53 was issued across a four-year window during which two different Treasurer signatures appear on the series, making signature variety the primary point of differentiation between otherwise identical notes.
Thomas De La Rue produced the series at their London facility, and the security thread specification on this issue predates the more sophisticated windowed threads De La Rue would introduce later in the decade.