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5 Shillings - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Bermuda Government |
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| Year | 1952-1957 |
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| Size | 140 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BERMUDA GOVERNMENT BERMUDA NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT. FIVE SHILLINGS ISSUED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE BERMUDA LEGISLATURE HAMILTON, BERMUDA 20th OCTOBER, 1952. COLONIAL TREASURER ASSISTANT COLONIAL TREASURER BRADBURY WILKINSON & Co. Ltd. NEW MALDEN, SURREY, LONDON 5/- |
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| Reverse lettering | FIVE SHILLINGS 5/- Honi soit qui mal y pense Dieu et mon droit BRADBURY, WILKINSON & Co. Ltd. NEW MALDEN, SURREY, ENGLAND (Translation: Shamed be whoever thinks ill of it. God and my right.) |
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Bermuda's postwar currency reform finally replaced the colonial note series that had run largely unchanged since the 1920s, and this issue marked the transition to Elizabeth II as the named sovereign — a change that required new plate work at Bradbury Wilkinson rather than a simple overprint. The notes circulated alongside the earlier George VI series during the early part of the window, since the colonial administration was in no hurry to withdraw usable currency.
Bradbury Wilkinson printed virtually all British colonial small-denomination issues of this period from their New Malden facility, and the quality of intaglio work on the Bermuda Government series is notably finer than on many comparable Caribbean issues of the same decade.