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5 Shillings - George VI Date at left
| Emisor | Bermuda Government |
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| Año | 1947 |
| Tipo | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Valor | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Moneda | Pound sterling (1158-1970) |
| Composición | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Tamaño | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Forma | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Impresor | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Diseñador(es) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Grabador(es) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
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| Referencia(s) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Descripción del anverso | Brown intaglio print on a multicolour guilloche underprint, with black serial numbers. A left-facing portrait of King George VI appears at upper centre, with a vignette of Hamilton Harbour occupying the lower centre. The issue date is positioned at left. |
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| Leyenda del anverso | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Descripción del reverso | Printed in brown and purple on a pink and olive guilloche underprint. The British Royal Coat of Arms is centrally placed within an oval guilloche frame, flanked at left and right by large denomination numerals '5/-' set within ornate cartouches. The denomination legend appears in a panel at the bottom of the central vignette, with the printer's imprint below. |
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| Firma(s) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
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| Variantes | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Comentarios |
The 1947 date places this note squarely in Bermuda's postwar transition period, when the colonial government was still issuing under royal authority but the territory's economic relationship with the United States — cemented by the 1941 base-lease agreement — had fundamentally reoriented the island away from sterling as a practical currency. American dollars circulated alongside British colonial notes throughout this period, which drove heavy transactional wear on low-denomination paper like this shilling issue.
Bradbury, Wilkinson produced the majority of British colonial small-denomination notes through the 1940s from their New Malden works, and the P#14 series reflects their characteristic intaglio quality. Pick 14 was superseded by the 1952 Elizabeth II issue following George VI's death in February of that year.