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1 Pound
| Issuer | Standard Bank of South Africa Limited |
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| Year | 1900-1920 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | TRANSVAAL ISSUE. THE STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA LIMITED. PRETORIA BRANCH. Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand at their Office ONE POUND PRETORIA VALUE RECD By Order of the Board of Directors |
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| Reverse lettering | THE STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA |
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The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited was a commercial bank incorporated in London in 1863, and its South African branches issued notes under that authority well into the Union period. These £1 notes span the Anglo-Boer War and its immediate aftermath — a period when the competing note issues of various colonial banks and the former Boer republics created genuine chaos in everyday commerce across the Transvaal and Orange River Colony.
Waterlow & Sons printed extensively for colonial banking clients throughout this period. Serial numbering and branch designation on Standard Bank notes of this series were often completed by hand at the issuing branch, meaning specimens from Kimberley, Port Elizabeth, or Johannesburg differ in ways the plate itself does not record.