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| 正面描述 | The obverse is laid out in the style of a cheque, with a light green and blue guilloche underprint covering the central field. A circular vignette at the left centre contains the Zimbabwe Bird emblem encircled by the legend "RESERVE BANK OF ZIMBABWE". The denomination numeral "500" appears in large brown letterpress at the upper left, lower left, and upper right, with the bearer cheque text and issue date set in the centre. A signature of the Governor appears beneath the left vignette, with the title "Dr. G Gono Governor" printed below. |
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| 背面铭文 | RESERVE BANK OF ZIMBABWE |
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By 2006, Zimbabwe's hyperinflationary spiral had already begun compressing the gap between face value and purchasing power to near-absurdity. The $500 denomination, issued as a bearer cheque rather than a conventional banknote — a legal distinction designed to sidestep constitutional limits on money supply expansion — was losing real value faster than Fidelity Printers could move paper through the press. Bearer cheques carried fixed expiry dates, which the Reserve Bank periodically extended by decree rather than issuing replacements.
The print run of just over 12 million is modest by the frantic standards of what followed in 2007–2008.