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Elizabeth R. We, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 11 of the
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186:A History of Currency in the British Colonies
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240:"Stamps & Coins of the Falkland Islands"
128:South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
82:Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
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183:Chalmers, R. (1972).
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