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1000 Dollars
| Issuer | Government of Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Reference(s) | P#2E |
| Obverse description | Printed in green on a fine guilloche underprint, the obverse carries the Royal Arms vignette at top center flanked by ornate foliate borders. A left-facing female portrait bust is set within an oval frame at left, with the denomination numeral 1000 in large figures to the right. The issuer title and promise-to-pay legend are inscribed in the central panel, with the denomination spelled out in bold letterpress across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green on a guilloche underprint, the reverse is dominated by a central rectangular vignette in which two cherub figures flank a circular seal enclosing a harbour scene with a sailing vessel and mountainous landscape. The denomination value 1000 appears in oval cartouches at left and right, with the word THOUSAND rendered in large open letterpress across the lower half of the central panel. |
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The Government of Trinidad and Tobago currency notes of this period were colonial instruments issued under British authority, with De La Rue handling production in London — a firm that dominated British colonial currency contracts throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A $1,000 face value in 1914 was an extraordinary sum for the Caribbean; this was not retail money. These notes moved between merchants, estates, and banking houses, not across shop counters.
Surviving examples from the P#2 series are exceptionally rare. The denomination alone guaranteed low print runs and limited circulation, and wartime disruptions after mid-1914 further complicated distribution and recall cycles.