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| 正面描述 | Central vignette of Queen Elizabeth II in portrait facing right, set within a guilloche-bordered oval frame at centre, with the national coat of arms positioned above. The denomination in words and figures appears at centre, surrounded by fine lathe-work underprint in a two-colour scheme. Legal tender text and issuing authority inscription are arranged around the central design elements. |
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| 防伪描述 | a Zimbabwe bird (soapstone bird) visible in the blank oval area to the right of centre on the reverse. |
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The Southern Rhodesia Currency Board was a passive issuing authority — it held sterling backing for every note in circulation and had no independent monetary policy to speak of. The £5 was the highest denomination in the series and would have moved primarily through commercial banking channels rather than everyday trade, given the purchasing power involved in mid-1950s Rhodesia.
Bradbury, Wilkinson's New Malden plant was the dominant supplier for British colonial currency in this period, and the engraved intaglio printing they applied to notes of this value gave the series a quality finish that distinguished it from lower-denomination issues. The federation of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland had only been established in 1953, and this Currency Board note predates the eventual transition to the Bank of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, which absorbed issuing responsibility before the decade was out.