Catalog
10 Kalahar Unissued
| Issuer | Namibia Reserve Bank |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of an oryx (gemsbok) head and upper body at left centre within a circular guilloche frame, printed in rose-red on a light underprint. The bilingual bank title "Namibia Reserve Bank / Namibia Reserwebank" appears at upper centre, with the denomination "K10" repeated at upper left, upper right, and lower right. The central inscription reads "Ten Kalahar / Tien Kalahar" in two lines. Serial numbers are rendered as "000000" at centre right and lower left, consistent with an unissued trial example. |
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| Obverse lettering | Namibia Reserve Bank Namibia Reserwebank Ten Kalahar Tien Kalahar K10 000000 |
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Bradbury Wilkinson closed its New Malden operation in 1990, the same year Namibia achieved independence from South African administration. This note was prepared for a currency unit — the Kalahar — that was never formally adopted. Independent Namibia ultimately retained the South African Rand until 1993, when the Namibian Dollar was introduced, rendering the Kalahar series obsolete before a single note entered circulation.
P#C1 designation marks it as a rejected proposal series. BW's final production year makes this an inadvertent footnote to the printer's own history.