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10 Shillings
| Issuer | Post Wissel Kantoor (Postal Exchange Office), Orange Free State |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Value | 10 Shillings |
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| Obverse description | Text-based postal order note with 'ORANJE VRIJ STAAT / POST NOOT' in bold letterpress across the top. A 'TWEE PENCE' commission stamp vignette with the Orange Free State arms is affixed at left, with handwritten payee and issuing office details in the body. 'TIEN SHILLINGS' printed in bold near the lower centre, with the denomination '10/-' in a box at upper right. |
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| Variants | P#S685a - Issued note P#S685b - Cancelled note |
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The Post Wissel Kantoor notes were emergency issues produced during the Anglo-Boer War as the Orange Free State's conventional banking infrastructure collapsed under British military pressure. The Postal Exchange Office, normally a remittance facility rather than a note-issuing authority, was pressed into service when more orthodox channels failed. This 10 Shillings piece belongs to a series that was never intended to outlast the war — and largely didn't, given that British annexation of the republic was proclaimed in May 1900.
Survival rates are low. Most were redeemed, repudiated, or simply lost in the disruption that followed the occupation. Those that exist today were typically kept as souvenirs rather than retired through any formal redemption process.