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10 Shillings
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Rhodesia |
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| Year | 1964 |
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| Currency | Pound (1964-1970) |
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| Obverse description | At centre-right, an intaglio portrait of Queen Elizabeth II faces left, with the national coat of arms positioned at top centre. The denomination appears in all four corners and at lower right, while the Zimbabwe bird vignette occupies the lower left corner. A fine guilloche underprint frames the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | RESERVE BANK OF RHODESIA TEN SHILLINGS 10/- |
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This note was issued just over a year before Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in November 1965, making it one of the last pieces of Rhodesian currency produced under conditions of relative political normalcy. The Reserve Bank of Rhodesia had only been established in 1964, splitting monetary functions away from the Bank of Rhodesia and Nyasaland following the dissolution of the Central African Federation — which is why the issuing authority on this series appears so briefly in the historical record.
N.H.B. Bruce served as the first Governor of the newly constituted Reserve Bank, and his signature appears on only a narrow window of issues before the political situation transformed both the bank's standing and its access to overseas printers.