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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II The Moorish Castle
| Issuer | Government of Gibraltar |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds (5 GIP) |
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| Obverse description | A large watermark-style vignette of Queen Elizabeth II occupies the centre of the note, rendered in green tones against a guilloche underprint with diagonal geometric bands. The Gibraltar coat of arms appears at centre-right alongside a colour-shifting security device, with the denomination numeral '£5' printed in the upper and lower right. The Commissioner of Currency's signature and the date '1st January 2011' are inscribed at lower right, with the serial number printed vertically at left in black and horizontally at lower right in red. |
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| Reverse description | An intaglio vignette of the Moorish Castle occupies the centre of the reverse, with the Upper Ward and Tower of Homage rendered in fine line engraving set against the Rock of Gibraltar. A large word 'Gibraltar' forms a pale underprint across the upper field, and the Gibraltar coat of arms appears as a colour element at centre-left within a guilloche rosette. The denomination appears at lower centre and lower right in contrasting typefaces. |
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Gibraltar's 2011 paper series arrived just as De La Rue was pushing most small-territory clients toward polymer substrates — Gibraltar held on to cotton-rag paper for this issue, an increasingly unusual choice by that point. The Moorish Castle denomination sits at the top of the circulating series, and the notes saw genuine everyday use rather than being pulled quickly for collector sets.
Colour-shifting ink on a De La Rue small-territory note of this period is worth noting — it was not a given at this print run scale, and its inclusion reflects the UK government's direct oversight of Gibraltar's currency security specifications.