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1 Pond Gouvernements Noot
| Issuer | Regeering der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek |
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| Year | 1900 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into two columns of typeset Dutch text setting out Articles 2 and 3 of Law No. 1 of 1900, which govern the legal tender status, lottery redemption schedule, and interest provisions of the note. The text is arranged in a plain letterpress layout without pictorial vignettes. |
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| Variants | P#54a - horizontal design under denomination with rosette with "№" by serial # P#54b - horizontal design under denomination without rosette with "№" by serial # P#54c - horizontal design under denomination with rosette without "№" by serial # |
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Issued in the final year of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek's existence, this government note — a Gouvernements Noot rather than a bank note — was produced by the Republic's own state press in Pretoria rather than contracted to a European security printer. That decision was not ideological; by 1900, with British forces advancing and the railway lines increasingly cut, outsourcing was simply not an option.
The Staatsdrukkerij lacked the anti-counterfeiting sophistication of firms like Bradbury Wilkinson or Skipper & East. Notes from this printing are consequently cruder in execution and were issued into wartime conditions that guaranteed hard use and heavy attrition.
Pretoria fell to Roberts on 5 June 1900.