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1 Pond
| Issuer | Nederlandsche Bank voor Zuid-Afrika |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Pond (1900-1920) |
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| Obverse description | Dark green intaglio-printed note with an ornate guilloche border framing the entire face. The bank title 'DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK VOOR ZUID-AFRIKA' is inscribed across the upper portion, with a central armorial vignette flanked by serial number panels reading 'No 0000'. The large denomination text 'EEN POND' is rendered in bold Gothic lettering at centre, with the payable clause 'BELOOFT AAN TOONDER TE BETALEN TE HAREN KANTORE TE PRETORIA' above, and 'WAARDE GENOTEN' and 'MET MACHTIGING VAN DEN RAAD VAN COMMISSARISSEN' below, with signature lines for Hoofdagent and Directeur at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK VOOR ZUID-AFRIKA BELOOFT AAN TOONDER TE BETALEN TE HAREN KANTORE TE PRETORIA EEN POND WAARDE GENOTEN MET MACHTIGING VAN DEN RAAD VAN COMMISSARISSEN HOOFDAGENT DIRECTEUR POND 1 POND DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK VOOR ZUID AFRIKA |
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The Nederlandsche Bank voor Zuid-Afrika was a Dutch colonial banking venture operating out of Pretoria, not a South African state institution — a distinction that matters when reading the note's authority. J.H. Bussy, the Amsterdam-based printer whose imprint appears in the margin, actually produced this note at their Haarlem facility, a detail that catches out catalog entries relying on city of registration rather than city of manufacture.
By 1920 the bank was operating in a sharply changed political environment — the Union of South Africa had been sovereign for a decade, and Dutch-aligned financial institutions were increasingly marginal. This note was printed relatively late in the bank's commercial life.