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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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| Reverse lettering | BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY JUSTICE FREEDOM INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 10 SHILLINGS |
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| Variants | P#S670a - Handstamp type I (ADMINISTRATOR'S OFFICE BULAWAYO in oval) P#S670b - Handstamp type II (ADMINISTRATOR'S OFFICE in oval) |
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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.