Catalog
1000 Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Value | 1000 Dollars (1000 ZWD) |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of a group of African elephants moving across an open savanna landscape, with a bull elephant at left and smaller animals to the right. At lower left, a vignette of two giraffes appears against a light guilloche underprint in shades of violet and green. The denomination numeral '1000' is repeated at upper right and lower left within decorative panels. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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By 2003, Zimbabwe's inflation had already rendered the 1000 Dollar note nearly useless in daily commerce almost from the moment of issue. Fidelity Printers International — the Reserve Bank's own captive printer in Harare — had taken over production after the government severed its relationship with foreign security printers, partly for cost reasons and partly to insulate the note-printing program from outside scrutiny as monetary conditions deteriorated.
The reliance on a single domestic printer with limited security technology is visible in the relatively sparse counterfeit deterrence on this issue — a watermark, and little else.