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| 表面の銘文 | 2/- DOS CHELINES THE GOVERNMENT OF GIBRALTAR hereby declares this Note to be of the value of TWO SHILLINGS and to be legal tender for that amount, and undertakes to redeem the said note in sterling money for the full face value at a date to be fixed hereafter by His Excellency the Governor. Gibraltar, 6th August, 1914. Colonial Treasurer { N.B. - This note is issued under the provisions of Ordinance 10 of 1914, and is secured by the said Ordinance on the assets and general Revenue of the Colony. |
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| 偽造防止技術 | Embossed seal |
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Gibraltar's wartime currency emergency produced a handful of fractional issues that most British colonial administrators considered a stopgap nuisance. The 1914 series was authorised under emergency provisions after the outbreak of WWI disrupted normal coin supplies — silver hoarding hit Gibraltar hard given its position as a major transit port, and small change effectively vanished from circulation within weeks of the war's declaration.
The embossed seal was the primary safeguard, which by later standards looks threadbare, but counterfeiting fractional notes of a fortress colony with limited civilian population was never a serious commercial proposition.