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2 Shillings
| Issuer | Government of Malta |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, consisting of plain paper with no design elements, text, or ornamentation. The watermark, where present, may be visible when the note is held to light. |
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| Protection description | P#17a and P#17b: no watermark; P#17c: Map of Malaya watermark |
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| Comments |
Malta's wartime government notes were issued under the Currency Notes Ordinance and printed in London precisely because the island itself was under sustained aerial bombardment from 1940 onward — the Siege of Malta made any local production infrastructure an obvious liability. The 1942 series, of which this 2 Shilling note is a part, was a practical response to severe coin shortages caused by disrupted supply lines and hoarding.
Bradbury Wilkinson's wartime production was under considerable pressure across multiple colonial and occupied-territory contracts simultaneously. Malta's notes from this period are known to suffer from foxing along the edges, a consequence of high-humidity storage conditions on the island during and after the siege.