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100 Pond
| Issuer | Regeering der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek |
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| Year | 1900 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with a fine guilloche border frame enclosing the text-based design. The upper portion carries the large bold heading GOUVERNEMENTS NOOT with HONDERD POND in a rectangular cartouche below, and the denomination £100 at upper right; a small arms vignette appears at left. The body of the note contains the promise text in Dutch, signed at lower centre by the Assist.-Generaal and Thes.-Generaal, dated Pretoria 28.5.1900, with the serial number printed at upper left. |
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| Obverse lettering | GOUVERNEMENTS NOOT HONDERD POND £100 De Regeering der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek belooft aan houder dezes te betalen HONDERD POND Sterling, volgens de bepalingen van Wet No. 1, 1900, waarvan artt. 2 en 3 op de achterzijde van deze noot zijn afgedrukt. Deze Noot is gewaarborgd door alle Vaste Eigendommen van den Staat, zooals bepaald in Wet No. 1, 1900. Assit.-Generaal Thes.-Generaal Pretoria Gedrukt ter Staatsdrukkerij van de Z. A. Republiek. |
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The Regeering der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek — the Government, not the National Bank — issued this note in 1900 as the Anglo-Boer War was closing in on Pretoria. Printed at the Staatsdrukkerij, the state press in Pretoria itself, production was essentially a wartime improvisation. The British occupied Pretoria in June 1900, and notes issued that year by the republican government were rapidly rendered worthless by the new administration.
At 100 Pond, this was a high-denomination instrument in a collapsing economy. The embossed seal is the sole security measure — no engraved intaglio, no complex underprint.