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5 Shillings - George V
| Issuer | East African Currency Board |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Shilling (1921-1967) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of King George V in an oval intaglio vignette at lower right, facing left. The issuer title THE EAST AFRICAN CURRENCY BOARD runs across the top within an ornate guilloche border, with the denomination FIVE SHILLINGS in large letterpress at centre, repeated in Arabic and Gujarati scripts below. The legal tender clause appears along the lower centre, with the place of issue Nairobi and date printed at bottom left alongside three manuscript signatures of Currency Board members. |
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| Reverse lettering | FIVE SHILLINGS FIVE SHILLINGS |
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The East African Currency Board was established in 1919 to provide a unified currency across British East Africa, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika — the latter only recently transferred from German to British administration under the League of Nations mandate. This 1921 issue was among the earliest Board notes printed, at a moment when the region's monetary infrastructure was still being assembled from scratch.
De La Rue produced the series in London. Notes of this date and denomination are genuinely rare in any grade; early EACB issues saw hard use in equatorial conditions that were particularly unkind to paper.