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2 Shillings 6 Pence
| Issuer | Government of Malta |
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| Year | 1939-1940 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of King George VI in intaglio engraving within an oval frame at right, facing left. The centre panel bears the denomination TWO SHILLINGS SIX PENCE in bold letterpress within a red guilloche underprint, flanked by fine decorative borders and corner value numerals 2/6. A handwritten signature appears at the lower centre, with the serial number printed in red at upper right and repeated at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE GOVERNMENT OF MALTA HEREBY DECLARES THIS NOTE TWO SHILLINGS ◘ SIX PENCE ◘ TO BE LEGAL TENDER FOR PAYMENTS NOT EXCEEDING £2 |
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Malta's wartime fractional currency was introduced because the disruption of supply chains and hoarding had stripped lower-denomination coinage from circulation almost entirely. These small-format government notes filled a genuine transactional gap during one of the most heavily bombed periods in British imperial history — the Siege of Malta began in 1940, the same year this series was still being issued and put into use.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility handled the printing, a reliable wartime choice. The pressing question for collectors is whether examples survived the island's extraordinary wartime destruction.