| توضیحات روی اسکناس |
At right, an intaglio portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in three-quarter profile facing left, wearing a tiara and pearl necklace, anchors the composition. The denomination FIVE POUNDS is rendered in large letterpress text at centre over an intricate guilloche underprint, with the legal tender clause inscribed above in a smaller typeface. The £5 numeral appears in ornate cartouches at upper left and upper right, all enclosed within a lace-pattern guilloche border running the full perimeter of the note. |
| نوشتههای روی اسکناس |
£5 BANK OF THE GOLD COAST THIS NOTE IS ISSUED ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE GOLD COAST AND IS LEGAL TENDER OF THE GOLD COAST FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT FIVE POUNDS FOR THE BANK OF THE GOLD COAST FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE GOLD COAST MINISTER OF FINANCE MANAGING DIRECTOR FIVE 123456 |
| توضیحات پشت اسکناس |
وارد شوید برای مشاهده جزئیات |
| نوشتههای پشت اسکناس |
وارد شوید برای مشاهده جزئیات |
| امضا(ها) |
وارد شوید برای مشاهده جزئیات |
| نوع ویژگی امنیتی |
وارد شوید برای مشاهده جزئیات |
| توضیحات ویژگی امنیتی |
وارد شوید برای مشاهده جزئیات |
| گونهها |
وارد شوید برای مشاهده جزئیات |
The Bank of the Gold Coast had an exceptionally short operational life — the institution was established in 1953 and dissolved when Ghana achieved independence in 1957, at which point the Bank of Ghana took over. Notes issued under this authority were in circulation for at most four years, and this 5 Pound denomination would have represented a substantial sum in a colony where wage labour was still denominated in shillings. High-value notes circulate less, get hoarded more, and survive in better condition precisely because ordinary people rarely spent them casually.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility handled a significant portion of British colonial currency printing through this period, and their intaglio work on Gold Coast issues is technically accomplished. The series was rendered obsolete when Ghana decimalized and introduced the Cedi in 1965.