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12 Shillings 6 Pence
| Issuer | Post Wissel Kantoor (Postal Exchange Office), Orange Free State |
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| Year | 1900 |
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| Value | 12 Shillings 6 Pence |
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| Obverse lettering | ORANJE VRIJ STAAT POST NOOT COMMISSIE LOON DRIE PENCE 12/6 Aan het POSTWISSEL KANTOOR te BETAAL aan TWAALF SHILLINGS & ZES PENCE POSTMEESTER BOVENSTAANDE Som ontvangen HANDTEEKENING Manager LETRON LIMITED |
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| Protection description | Typeset serial number in the upper right area of the note. |
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The Post Wissel Kantoor was the Orange Free State's postal money order office, and these fractional notes were rushed into circulation during the Anglo-Boer War as coin supplies collapsed under wartime disruption. The 12/6 denomination is an oddity even within this emergency series — shillings-and-pence fractions were deeply inconvenient to administer, and their existence points to how granular the small-change shortage had become by 1900.
Surviving examples are genuinely scarce. The OFS government ceased to exist as an independent republic in May 1900 when Bloemfontein fell, cutting short whatever redemption process might have followed.