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2 Dollars - George VI Brown
| Issuer | Government of British Honduras |
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| Year | 1939-1942 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio print on a multicolour guilloche underprint, with red serial numbers. A front-facing portrait bust of King George VI occupies the right side, with the Coat of Arms of British Honduras at left. The text panel carries the issuing authority designation and legal tender clause. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate symmetrical guilloche pattern composed of interlocking lathe-work rosettes and foliate scrollwork, framing a central cartouche. The cartouche bears the issuing authority inscription in bold lettering, with additional fine geometric fretwork filling the surrounding field. |
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British Honduras in 1939 was a Crown Colony administered from Belmopan — and the timing of this issue matters. The 1939–1942 date range straddles the outbreak of the Second World War, which disrupted colonial currency supply chains considerably. Bradbury Wilkinson, operating out of New Malden, maintained contracts with dozens of colonial governments through the war years, but shipping finished notes to Central America carried real risk.
P#21 is the brown-tinted George VI issue, distinguishing it from the earlier George V notes and the postwar redesigns. The brown coloration was a deliberate security measure — each denomination in the series used a distinct base color to prevent substitution fraud in low-literacy circulation environments.