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1 Pound
| Issuer | Treasury of Western Samoa |
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| Year | 1922-1942 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in multicolour guilloche work combining blue-green and rose tones, with an elaborate lathe-work pattern filling the entire field. A large stylised pound sterling symbol (£1) is engraved at centre, flanked by POUND panels at left and right, all enclosed within the arched inscriptions TERRITORY OF / WESTERN SAMOA and TREASURY NOTE. |
| Reverse lettering | TERRITORY OF TREASURY NOTE WESTERN SAMOA £1 POUND POUND |
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Western Samoa was a League of Nations mandate under New Zealand administration from 1920, and the Treasury — not a central bank — was the issuing authority throughout this period precisely because no proper banking infrastructure existed on the islands. Bradbury Wilkinson held longstanding contracts across the British imperial and Commonwealth world, and their work on this series is consistent with their output for other administered territories of the period.
The twenty-year span across which P#8 was current reflects not policy stability but sheer remoteness — there was little administrative urgency to update the currency when circulation volumes were small and supply logistics difficult. Notes returned to the Treasury were often simply reissued rather than destroyed.