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10 Shillings
| Issuer | Volkskas Beperk / Volkskas Limited |
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| Year | 1949-1958 |
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| Value | 10 Shillings (1/2) |
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| Obverse description | Blue on green and tan guilloche underprint. The central vignette presents a panoramic view of scattered buildings set against a mountainous background, rendered in fine intaglio line work. Trilingual promise-to-pay text in Afrikaans, English, and German appears across the note face, with the date and denomination expressed as '10/-'. |
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| Variants | P#13a - 01.06.1949, 17.04.1951, 04.06.1952 P#13b - 01.09.1958 |
| Comments |
Volkskas — literally "people's treasury" — was established in 1934 by Afrikaner nationalist interests as a deliberate alternative to the British-linked banking establishment. By the time this note entered circulation, the institution had grown substantially but remained ideologically distinct, part of a broader Afrikaner economic movement that gathered real momentum through the 1940s.
The irony of a proudly Afrikaner bank printing its currency through Waterlow & Sons in London was not lost on contemporaries. Practical necessity won out over symbolism — South Africa had no domestic security printing capacity at the time.