Catalog
1 Pound
| Issuer | Southern Rhodesia Currency Board |
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| Year | 1939-1951 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Signature(s) | A.W. Bessle / E.T. Fox / A.H. Strachan / Gordon Munro |
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| Variants | P#10a - Signature A.W. Bessle, small prefix letters, 15.12.1939; 01.07.1942 P#10b - Signature A.W. Bessle, intermediate prefix letters, 01.03.1944 P#10c - Signature E.T. Fox, intermediate prefix letters, 01.02.1945; 01.10.1945; 15.01.1947 P#10d - Signature E.T. Fox, large prefix letters, 01.01.1948 P#10e - Signature A.H. Strachan, 10.01.1950 P#10f - Signature Gordon Munro, 01.09.1950; 01.09.1951 Multiple member signatures known per variant |
| Comments |
The Southern Rhodesia Currency Board was a purely passive issuing authority — it held no power over monetary policy, acting instead as a mechanical converter of sterling into local notes at a fixed one-to-one rate. The Board existed largely because London required colonial territories to maintain their own note supply, not because Salisbury had any autonomous monetary ambitions.
Bradbury Wilkinson produced the series across a twelve-year window that spanned the Second World War, during which shipping printed currency from New Malden to Southern Rhodesia carried genuine logistical risk. Four different signature combinations appear across Pick 10, reflecting the Board's rotating membership rather than any reissue or policy change.