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5 Pounds
| Issuer | Standard Bank of South Africa Limited |
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| Year | 1931-1953 |
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| Value | 5 Pounds |
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| Obverse description | Red with multicolour underprint. The obverse carries bilingual Afrikaans and English text with a central vignette of a tree flanked by three Merino sheep, and a secondary vignette of Ruacana Falls on the Kunene River. Guilloche underprint patterns frame the text block, with the denomination stated in both languages. |
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| Reverse description | Trilingual text in Afrikaans, English, and German surrounds a central vignette of five kudu antelopes set against a landscape of mountains and trees. The bank name and denomination are rendered in both English and Afrikaans, with the printer's imprint at the lower border. |
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Standard Bank's pre-Union and early Union-era note issues are well documented, but this series occupies an awkward middle period — printed continuously across more than two decades, with date and signature combinations that matter enormously to completeness-minded collectors. Waterlow & Sons handled the printing throughout, as they did for a substantial portion of British colonial and Commonwealth banking paper during this period.
The five pound denomination saw genuine commercial use rather than casual retail circulation — South Africa's economy in the 1930s and 1940s meant these moved through mercantile and agricultural trade, and heavily circulated survivors are the rule, not the exception.