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5 Pounds
| Issuer | Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd., Bloemfontein |
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| Year | 1900 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Orange-printed note with a central vignette at left of a standing classical female figure holding a flag atop a rocky outcrop with a townscape in the background. The upper portion carries the bold letterpress legend STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA LIMITED in large type, with BLOEMFONTEIN BRANCH below. A large guilloché numeral 5 cartouche appears at upper right, with repeated FIVE numerals and ornamental borders along the margins. The promise-to-pay text reads 'Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand at their Office at BLOEMFONTEIN FIVE POUNDS' with serial number and date fields, and lower border reads BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS with signature lines for Chief, Accountant, and Manager. |
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| Obverse lettering | STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA LIMITED BLOEMFONTEIN BRANCH FIVE POUNDS Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand at their Office at BLOEMFONTEIN BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FIVE 5 |
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The Standard Bank operated a network of branches across the Cape Colony and the Boer republics throughout the 1890s, and the Bloemfontein branch notes occupy a specific and contested place in South African paper money history. Bloemfontein was the capital of the Orange Free State, and by 1900 the town had been occupied by British forces — Lord Roberts entered on 13 March of that year. Notes issued around this period exist in a murky transitional zone between legitimate colonial banking and wartime expediency.
The S-prefix Pick numbers denote private commercial bank issues rather than government or central bank paper, a distinction that matters when establishing legal tender status at the time of use.