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10 Shillings
| Issuer | Civil Commissioner, Bulawayo / Marshall Hole |
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| Year | 1900 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | THE CIVIL COMMISSIONER, BULAWAYO Please pay in cash to the person producing this card the face value of the stamp affixed thereto, if presented on or after the 1st August, 1900. This card must be produced for redemption not later than 1st October, 1900. Secretary. CHRONICLE PRINTING WORKS, BULAWAYO |
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| Reverse lettering | BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY JUSTICE FREEDOM INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 10 SHILLINGS |
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Marshall Hole was Civil Commissioner at Bulawayo during the Second Matabele War's aftermath and the early stages of the Anglo-Boer War, a period when coinage virtually disappeared from circulation across Rhodesia as it was hoarded or drained southward. This card note was a local stopgap — printed by the Chronicle Printing Works, a newspaper press, because there was simply no better option available. The Chronicle had been producing the Bulawayo Chronicle since 1894; banknote printing was well outside its usual work.
Authentication rested entirely on a handstamp, which makes forgery detection on surviving examples a genuine concern. The card substrate rather than rag paper also means condition problems — splitting, soiling, and edge damage — are nearly universal across the series.