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500 Rupees
| Issuer | Zanzibar Government |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is framed by an ornate Moorish arch border with intricate guilloche scrollwork throughout. At left, a vignette of a dhow under sail on open water; at right, a vignette of workers harvesting cloves from a tall tree using a wooden scaffold. The central panel carries the promise-to-pay text in English, Arabic, and Gujarati scripts, with the denomination numeral 500 repeated in all four corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE ZANZIBAR GOVERNMENT ٥٠٠ પાંચસો Promises to pay the Bearer on Demand the Sum of FIVE HUNDRED RUPEES خمسمائة روبية પાંચસો રૂપિયા ZANZIBAR, 1ST SEPTEMBER, 1920. For the GOVERNMENT OF ZANZIBAR. |
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| Signature(s) | J.Y. Sinclair (Chief Secretary) and Ian Corbett Davis (Treasurer) |
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