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5 Pounds - Charles III
| Issuer | Government of the Falkland Islands |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Predominantly red on a multicoloured underprint, with guilloche patterning across the central field. A portrait of King Charles III appears at right, with a vignette of five black-browed albatrosses in flight at centre and a map of the Falkland Islands in the central field. The Falkland Islands coat of arms is positioned at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | FIVE POUNDS 5 THESE NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT 14 AUGUST 2025 COMMISSIONERS OF CURRENCY FIRST RECORDED SIGHTING OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS FROM THE EXPEDITION SHIP DESIRE, 14 AUGUST 1592 THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS |
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The Falkland Islands pound has been pegged one-to-one with sterling since 1983, making this note functionally interchangeable with its UK equivalent within the islands — though accepted nowhere else. Falklands notes circulate in a population of under 4,000, which means print runs are extremely small by any commercial standard, and used examples are correspondingly hard to find outside the territory.
This is among the earliest Falklands issues to carry Charles III's portrait following the 2022 accession, replacing the long-running Elizabeth II series. De La Rue's shift to polymer for this denomination reflects the same substrate change the UK itself made with its own higher-denomination notes from 2017 onward.