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5 Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Reference(s) | P#93 |
| Obverse description | The obverse bears a central vignette of the Chiremba Balancing Rocks in Matopos National Park, set against a guilloche underprint. The Zimbabwe Bird appears in colour-shifting ink, serving as a primary security and emblematic device. Issuer inscription and denomination legends are printed in intaglio. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents an oval intaglio vignette combining a leaping Tigerfish (Hydrocynus vittatus) in the left foreground with a panoramic view of the Kariba Dam wall on the Zambezi River to the right. A geometric guilloche pattern in orange and gold fills the left margin, incorporating repeated numeral 5 motifs in the side border. The issuer name and denomination numeral appear in green at the top and bottom right. |
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By the time this note was issued in February 2009, Zimbabwe's third-dollar series was already obsolete before it reached the public. The Reserve Bank had introduced the third Zimbabwe dollar in August 2008, redenominating at 10 billion to one, only to find hyperinflation rendered each new denomination worthless within weeks. The 5 dollar face value, notionally restored to something manageable, meant nothing in a country where monthly inflation had peaked at figures that defy conventional economic measurement.
Fidelity Printers, a Reserve Bank subsidiary, had been producing Zimbabwe's currency domestically since the foreign exchange crisis made overseas printing contracts impossible to sustain. The series was abandoned in April 2009 when Zimbabwe suspended the dollar entirely and permitted transactions only in foreign currencies.