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10 Pond
| Issuer | Regeering der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek |
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| Year | 1902 |
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| In circulation to | 1902 |
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| Obverse description | Plain white note of utilitarian wartime design, with the Z.A.R. coat of arms vignette at left within a simple border panel, flanked by the initials 'Z.A.R.' above and below. The upper right corner bears the denomination '£10' in bold type, with the serial number to the upper left. The central text in Dutch reads 'GOUVERNEMENTS NOOT / TIEN POND' followed by a promise-to-pay clause referencing Wet No. 1, 1900, with two manuscript signatures at the foot above the titles 'Wd. Audt.-Generaal' and 'Wd. Thes.-Generaal.' |
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| Obverse lettering | No. GOUVERNEMENTS NOOT TIEN POND De Regeering der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek belooft aan houder dezes te betalen TIEN POND Sterling, volgens de bepalingen van Wet No. 1, 1900, waarvan Art. 2 en 3 op de achterzijde van deze noot zijn afgedrukt. Deze Noten zijn gewaarborgd door alle Vaste Eigendommen van den Staat, zooals bepaald in Wet No. 1, 1900. Wd. Audt.-Generaal Te Velde, Z.A.R., Wd. Thes.-Generaal GEDRUKT TER STAATSDRUKKERIJ VAN DE Z.A. REPUBLIEK, PRETORIA'S RUST. Z.A.R. |
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The Staatsdrukkerij — the State Press in Pretoria — was still operating under siege conditions when notes of this series were produced. By 1902 the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek had ceased to exist as a functioning government; the Peace of Vereeniging was signed in May of that year, ending the Anglo-Boer War and extinguishing the Republic entirely. Any note bearing a 1902 date from this issuer was produced in the final, desperate phase of the war, when Boer forces were conducting guerrilla operations and the Pretoria administration had effectively collapsed.
Few circulated in any meaningful commercial sense. Most survivors show either heavy handling from field use or near-pristine condition from having never reached circulation at all.