Catalog
10 Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe |
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| Year | 1980-1994 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company |
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| Obverse description | The right half of the obverse is dominated by an intaglio vignette of the Chiremba Balancing Rocks of Matopos National Park, rendered in deep red against a fine guilloche underprint that fills the entire face. To the lower left, a sable antelope is engraved in dark intaglio, while the denomination panel at centre carries the promise-to-pay clause above the large intaglio legend TEN DOLLARS. The issuer's title RESERVE BANK OF ZIMBABWE runs along the top border, with the denomination numeral $10 repeated in a cartouche at upper right and at lower left. |
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| Signature(s) | Dr. D.C. Krogh (Sig.1); K. Moyana (Sig.2); L. Tsumba (Sig.3) |
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Zimbabwe's first post-independence banknote series, of which this is part, was issued from 1980 following the transition from Rhodesian Dollar to Zimbabwe Dollar. Thomas De La Rue handled the printing, as they had for the Rhodesian predecessor series — a deliberate continuity of technical relationship, if not political one. The new government retained the same printer partly to ensure a smooth currency transition and avoid signaling instability to international markets.
The series ran for an unusually long fourteen years before replacement, spanning a period of relatively stable monetary policy before Zimbabwe's later inflationary crises.