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10 Shillings Siege of Mafeking
| Issuer | Mafeking Siege Note Authority |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Value | 10 Shillings (1/2) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress-printed note with a royal coat of arms vignette centered at the top. The denomination "10S" appears in the upper corners, flanked by text panels bearing the full siege note legend. Two vignettes in the lower corners each show a soldier manning a cannon, evoking the military context of the Mafeking siege. The text is arranged in a typeset layout characteristic of emergency wartime issues, with the issuing authority and paymaster signatures printed below the central inscription. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain paper reverse, consistent with the emergency wartime production methods used for this siege issue. Show-through of the obverse letterpress impression is visible due to the thin paper stock used. |
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| Signature(s) | H. Greener (Chief Paymaster) |
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