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50 000 Dollars Emergency Bearer Cheque
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Signature(s) | Dr. Gideon Gono (Sig.8) |
| Protection type | Watermark |
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Zimbabwe's hyperinflationary spiral forced the Reserve Bank into repeated emergency issuances throughout 2006 — this bearer cheque series was never intended as permanent currency but as a stopgap instrument with a fixed expiry date, redeemable only within a defined window before becoming legally worthless. The use of bearer cheque nomenclature was a bureaucratic workaround to sidestep statutory limits on note issuance that still technically applied to the Reserve Bank at the time.
Fidelity Printers and Refiners, the state-owned security printer in Harare, produced the entire run domestically — a significant detail given that Zimbabwe had previously relied on foreign security printers before hard currency shortages made those contracts untenable.