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6 Pence
| Issuer | Civil Commissioner, Bulawayo / Marshall Hole |
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| Year | 1900 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock bearing entirely typeset text in letterpress. The upper legend reads 'THE CIVIL COMMISSIONER, BULAWAYO.' followed by a body text instructing that the bearer be paid the face value of the stamp affixed thereto if presented on or after 1st August 1900, with a redemption deadline of 1st October 1900. Below the text appears a large manuscript signature of Marshall Hole over the title 'Secretary', with the imprint 'Chronicle Printing Works, Bulawayo.' at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY JUSTICE FREEDOM COMMERCE INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 6 PENCE |
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Marshall Hole was the Civil Commissioner at Bulawayo when this piece was produced — an emergency measure during the acute coin shortage that gripped Matabeleland in the early months of 1900. The Anglo-Boer War to the south had disrupted supply lines and drained specie from circulation across the region, forcing local administrators to improvise. Hole's office issued these cardboard pieces through the Chronicle Printing Works, a newspaper press not ordinarily in the business of currency production.
The use of a local press is exactly what limits surviving examples: print quality was inconsistent, card stock was not archival, and most pieces were redeemed and discarded once normal coinage returned.