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1 Shilling
| Issuer | Post Office Department - Cape Colony, Naauwpoort |
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| Year | 1900 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT CAPE COLONY POSTAL NOTE FOR ONE SHILLING Date of Issue To the MONEY ORDER OFFICE at PAY to at any time within THREE CALENDAR MONTHS from the last day of the Month of Issue the sum of ONE SHILLING on account of the Postmaster General. Postmaster. RECEIVED the above-named Sum. SIGNATURE. REGULATIONS. ONE PENNY POUNDAGE NAAUWPOORT N.C.G.H. 1/- |
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| Variants | P#701a - Issued note P#701b - Cancelled note |
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Naauwpoort was a critical railway junction in the central Cape Colony, and in 1900 it sat directly in the path of Boer advances. This note was issued not by a bank but by the Post Office Department — a civilian administrative body pressed into emergency money production as normal currency supply chains collapsed under wartime conditions. Small-denomination scrip of this kind filled an immediate transactional gap when coin disappeared from circulation through hoarding and military requisition.
Cape Colony post office emergency issues from this period are among the more obscure categories of Anglo-Boer War fiscal material. Naauwpoort-specific pieces surface rarely.