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5 Shillings Government Issue

Issuer Government of Saint Lucia
Year 1920
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Currency Pound Sterling (1838-1935)
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Obverse description Purple on light green underprint, with a central portrait vignette of King George V facing left. The denomination is rendered in words below the royal portrait, framed within a formal typographic border. Issuing authority and legal tender declaration appear across the upper register, with the date and place of issue inscribed at the foot of the note.
Obverse lettering THE GOVERNMENT OF ST. LUCIA These Notes are Legal Tender for the payment of any amount. FIVE SHILLINGS Castries, 1st. October 1920
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Saint Lucia's only government-issued paper currency, this 5 Shillings note from 1920 was produced under the authority of the colonial administration rather than any chartered bank — an unusual arrangement for the British Caribbean, where private and later Crown Agents banking was the norm. De La Rue's involvement guaranteed technical quality, but the issue was never repeated; subsequent currency needs in the Windward Islands were met through regional banking arrangements rather than individual colonial emissions.

As Pick #1 with no successor series, surviving examples represent the entirety of Saint Lucia's standalone paper currency history.