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10 Shillings - George VI Green
| Issuer | Bermuda Government |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 10 Shillings (1/2) |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio print on a multicolour guilloche underprint, with black serial numbers. A left-facing portrait of King George VI occupies the upper centre, while a vignette of Gates Fort in Saint George, Bermuda is positioned at the bottom centre, with the issue date inscribed below. |
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| Reverse lettering | TEN SHILLINGS 10/- Honi soit qui mal y pense Dieu et mon droit BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co. Ltd. NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND (Translation: Shamed be whoever thinks ill of it. God and my right.) |
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Bradbury, Wilkinson produced this note at their New Malden works under the strict security printing contracts that governed all British colonial currency of the period. The 1937 date places it in the very first year of the series — Bermuda had issued no local government paper in denominations this small before; prior to the 1930s, the islands relied almost entirely on sterling coinage and bank drafts for everyday transactions.
Wartime use hit these notes hard. Bermuda's role as a major transatlantic transit point after 1939 accelerated circulation considerably, and surviving examples in clean condition are scarcer than the print run alone would suggest.