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20 Pond
| Issuer | Regeering der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek |
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| Year | 1901 |
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| Value | 20 Pond |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note with a decorative border of repeated ornamental units enclosing the central text area. The coat of arms of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek appears in the upper left, with the denomination '£20' in the upper right corner. The central text block, in Dutch, bears the government promise to pay twenty pounds sterling with reference to Wet No. 1, 1900, followed by a manuscript date and place of issue ('Pietersburg, 1901') and two manuscript signatures above their printed titles. |
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| Obverse lettering | GOUVERNEMENTS NOOT. TWINTIG POND No. 519A £20 De Regeering der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek belooft den houder dezes te beta'en TWINTIG POND Sterling, overeenkomstig de bepalingen van Wet No. 1, 1900; garantie artt. 2 en 3 op de achterzijde van deze noot zijn a'gedrukt. PIETERSBURG 1901 Wd. Audt.-Generaal Wd. Thes.-Generaal Gedrukt for Staatsdrukkerij van de Z.A. Republiek. |
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By the time this note was authorised, Pretoria had fallen and the Z.A.R. government was operating from the northern town of Pietersburg — one of the last Boer-held administrative centres. The Staatsdrukkerij, the Republic's own state press, had relocated with the government, and these notes were produced under active wartime conditions rather than in any settled banking environment.
Printed on whatever paper was available and signed by officials in the field, the 1901 Pietersburg issues are among the most historically compressed paper money produced on South African soil. The Republic ceased to exist the following year under the Treaty of Vereeniging.