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10 Shillings
| Issuer | Government of Malta |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 10 Shillings (1/2) |
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| Reverse description | Plain white note with pale grey-black letterpress text. A large embossed blind stamp of the Seal of Malta dominates the centre, the impression showing through from the obverse. Denomination values of 10s. appear in each corner, with the legal tender and convertibility clauses printed across the central field. |
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| Protection description | Blind embossed seal of Malta impressed into the paper, visible on both faces of the note. |
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| Comments |
Malta's 1914 emergency currency was a direct consequence of the First World War's disruption to coin supplies across British colonial territories. The British government authorized local administrations to issue low-denomination paper notes to fill the gap left by hoarded or unavailable coinage — this 10 Shillings note is among the earliest surviving examples of Maltese government paper money.
The embossed seal was the sole anti-counterfeiting measure, a remarkably minimal specification even by 1914 colonial standards. Pick 3 is genuinely scarce; the small island population and limited print run, combined with wartime attrition, left few survivors in any grade.