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5 Shillings
| Issuer | Government of the Falkland Islands |
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| Year | 1905-1916 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note printed by letterpress with an ornate border of interlocking guilloche and foliate scrollwork framing the entire face. The denomination '5/-' appears in bold numerals at both left and right, flanking a central panel bearing the legend 'FIVE SHILLINGS' in large serif capitals, with the issuing authority title set in Gothic script above. Serial number panels with ornamental brackets occupy the upper corners, while date and two manuscript signature lines for the Commissioners of Currency appear in the lower portion alongside the printed line 'FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS'. |
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| Protection description | Overall geometric guilloche watermark pattern across the paper, visible on the reverse as a repeating angular lattice design. |
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The Falkland Islands Government issued this note under authority derived directly from the Colonial Treasury — not through a chartered bank — which was unusual for British colonial dependencies of the period and reflects the extreme isolation and minimal commercial banking infrastructure of the islands at the time. Thomas De La Rue printed the series in London, as they did for a considerable number of British colonial territories, though the tiny circulation figures for the Falklands made these notes uncommon from the outset.
P#1A is the first catalogued note for the territory. The long date span — over a decade — almost certainly masks very low print runs rather than continuous reissue.