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5 Pounds
| Issuer | Standard Bank of South Africa Limited - Salisbury Branch |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Currency | Pound sterling (1694-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | RHODESIAN ISSUE. THE STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA LIMITED. SALISBURY BRANCH. Promise to pay the Bearer on Demand at their Office SALISBURY. FIVE POUNDS VALUE RECD 1st December 1916. By order of the Board of Directors. VYF FIVE |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue-green, the reverse centres on a large circular guilloche medallion enclosing a finely engraved portrait bust of an allegorical female figure wearing a diadem. Flanking the central medallion are two architectural vignettes: the Cape Town branch at left and the Johannesburg branch at right, each set within ornate scroll work. The bank title 'THE STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA LIMITED' arcs around the central medallion, with the numeral '5' repeated in each upper corner. |
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The Standard Bank operated branches across British Southern Africa under a single issuing authority, but branch-specific notes like this Salisbury example were a genuine operational necessity — Rhodesia's commercial infrastructure in 1916 was thin enough that local paper had to function independently of Johannesburg. Waterlow & Sons handled the printing, as they did for much of the bank's regional series, working from plate designs that saw reuse across multiple denominations and branches with only the branch name and signatory details altered.
Salisbury branch issues at this denomination are genuinely scarce. The five-pound face value limited everyday circulation to commercial transactions, and wartime conditions in 1916 meant fewer notes were issued and less were preserved.