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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II 150th Anniversary of British rule
| Issuer | Government of the Falkland Islands |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse lettering | Government of the Falkland Islands These notes are legal tender for the payment of any amount Five Pounds For the Government of the Falkland Islands 150th Anniversary 1833-1983 |
| Reverse description | Red on multicolour underprint. The reverse carries two oval vignettes separated by a central elliptical frame: Government House in Stanley with the Union Flag at left, and Christ Church Cathedral with its distinctive whalebone arch at right. The composition is framed by intricate guilloche borders and lathe work in red tones. |
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Issued to mark 150 years since Britain formally established its presence in the Falklands following the expulsion of Argentine forces in January 1833, this note arrived just months after the 1982 war — a conflict that had briefly suspended normal island life entirely and raised genuine questions about whether the Crown would hold the territory at all. The timing was deliberate. A commemorative currency issue in 1983 carried obvious political weight that a quieter anniversary might not have demanded.
De La Rue's watermark security on this series is relatively modest by the firm's own standards of the period, though for a small-population territory with limited circulation volume, elaborate anti-counterfeiting measures were never the priority.