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1 Pound
| Issuer | Government of the Falkland Islands |
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| Year | 1899 |
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| Reference(s) | P#A3 |
| Obverse description | Blue ink on pink guilloche underprint covering the central field of the note. The promise-to-pay text is printed in letterpress, with the denomination expressed both in words and as the symbol £1. Serial number carries a fractional prefix letter A followed by five digits, with the date entered by hand in manuscript. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND THE SUM OF ONE POUND £1 |
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Only three examples of this note are documented in collector literature, making it among the rarest surviving British colonial issues of the period. The Falkland Islands' economy in 1899 was almost entirely dependent on wool production from a handful of large sheep-farming companies, and circulating paper currency was barely necessary — most transactions on the islands ran through company stores on credit. A government pound note in this environment had an extremely narrow functional role.
De La Rue's involvement was standard for British colonial territories of the period, but the tiny population of the Falklands — under 2,000 at the time — means original print runs were almost certainly very small.