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2 Dollars
| Issuer | Government of Trinidad and Tobago |
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| Year | 1905 |
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| Value | 2 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | THE GOVERNMENT OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TWO DOLLARS MISCERIQUE PROBAT POPULOS ET FOEDERA JUNGI TRINIDAD PULCHRIOR EVENIT TOBAGO Promises to pay the Bearer on demand the sum of Two dollars Port of Spain 1st April, 1905 Commissioner of Currency THOS DE LA RUE & CO LTD LONDON |
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| Reverse lettering | TWO DOLLARS COCOA FIELD CANE FIELD |
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Trinidad and Tobago was still a British crown colony in 1905, and the Government — rather than any chartered bank — took direct responsibility for issuing currency notes. This was relatively uncommon for the Caribbean at the time, where private bank notes often dominated. The De La Rue printing is consistent with London's role as the dominant supplier of colonial fiscal paper across the empire, though the specific contract details for this early Trinidad series are not widely documented.
P#2 is genuinely scarce. The 1905 government issues had low print runs relative to later decades, and tropical humidity has not been kind to surviving examples.