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1 Dollar Government Issue
| Issuer | Government of British Guiana |
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| Year | 1929-1936 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Red on green and purple underprint, with black serial numbers, date, and signatures. The central vignette presents a waterfall scene flanked by a toucan vignette at left and a ship seal at right, all set within an intricate guilloche border. The legend of the issuing authority, promise to pay, and printer's imprint appear in letterpress across the note. |
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| Variants | P#6(1) - 01.01.1929, red serial number P#6(2) - 01.01.1929, black serial number P#6 - 01.01.1936 |
| Comments |
British Guiana's government currency notes — as distinct from the colonial bank issues — occupied an awkward administrative space. The Treasury operated its own note circulation alongside the British Guiana Bank, and these small-denomination government dollars were the workhorses of day-to-day trade in a colony whose economy ran heavily on sugar estate wages and Georgetown market transactions.
Waterlow & Sons held the printing contract through much of the interwar period. The 1929–1936 date range spans the worst years of the Depression, when colonial treasuries across the Caribbean were squeezed between falling commodity prices and London's reluctance to extend credit.