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5 Dollars Green
| Issuer | Government of British Honduras |
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| Year | 1924-1928 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars (5 BZD) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green with red serial numbers at upper left and right. The colonial coat of arms of British Honduras is engraved as a central vignette at top, flanked by elaborate guilloche borders and corner numerals. The denomination FIVE DOLLARS is displayed in a bold letterpress panel across the centre, with the date and issuing authority inscriptions below. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green with an intricate guilloche lathe-work pattern covering the entire field. Stylized floral and foliate vignettes are symmetrically arranged at centre and corners, with the country name inscription across the top. |
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British Honduras maintained a paper currency tradition tied closely to De La Rue throughout the early twentieth century, but the 1924–1928 five dollar issue occupies a specific administrative moment: the colony was still operating under the British Honduras Currency Ordinance framework, with no central bank, notes redeemable directly by the government rather than through any banking intermediary. That arrangement made the government itself the direct obligor — unusual even by colonial standards of the period.
De La Rue's security printing for Caribbean and Central American colonial issues of this era typically used wet-process paper with embedded security threads not yet standardized across the range, and P#16 sits within a short-lived series that was superseded relatively quickly as denominational needs shifted in the early 1930s.