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1 Pond
| Issuer | Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek |
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| Year | 1871-1872 |
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| Value | 1 Pond |
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| Obverse lettering | Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek EEN Een Pond PRETORIA, Z.A. REPUBLIEK Geokter Thesaurier Lid der Commissie Staats President |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on the same green-tinted paper and is essentially plain, showing faint offset impressions of the obverse text visible through the paper, with no distinct printed design or vignette on this side. |
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The Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek's earliest paper currency was a product of sheer necessity. The Pretoria-printed notes of 1871–1872 were produced locally by William Brown & Co. at a time when the Republic had no established banking infrastructure and limited access to European printing houses. The result was a technically rudimentary issue — hand-signed, with none of the intaglio security work that contemporary European printers were employing.
These are among the earliest government-issued notes from the Transvaal, predating the formation of De Nationale Bank by over a decade.