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1 Pound
| Issuer | Bahamas Government |
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| Year | 1869 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Bahamas Government Receivable in payment of Revenue or in purchase of Debentures at the Public Treasury Nassau, New Providence and bearing legal Interest from the date here of ONE Pound Sterling £ ONE TREASURER PUBLIC TREASURY BAHAMAS By order of the Governor Colonial Secretary |
| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially unprinted, presenting a plain aged paper surface with no engraved or typeset design elements, typical of early colonial treasury notes of this period where the reverse was left blank as issued. |
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The Bahamas Government was among the earliest British colonial administrations to issue its own paper currency rather than relying entirely on imported British notes or local private bank issues. This 1869 pound predates the more familiar Bahamas Government series of the twentieth century by decades and belongs to a period when colonial treasury notes were genuinely uncommon instruments — printed in small quantities, circulated among a small population, and rarely surviving intact.
Major & Knapp were a New York lithographic firm better known for commercial work than currency printing, which places this issue outside the usual lineage of security printers like Perkins Bacon or De La Rue. Whether that choice reflected cost, logistics, or colonial indifference to security features is not recorded.