Catalog
500 Rupees
| Issuer | Zanzibar Government |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1908-1935) |
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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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| Signature(s) | J.Y. Sinclair (Chief Secretary) and Ian Corbett Davis (Treasurer) |
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| Protection description | Watermarked paper |
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