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1 Pound
| Issuer | Central Africa Currency Board |
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| Year | 1955 |
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| Value | 1 Pound |
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| Reverse lettering | SOUTHERN RHODESIA ONE POUND S1 |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Central Africa Currency Board served Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland — a colonial monetary arrangement that was already living on borrowed time by 1955. The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland had been constituted in 1953, and the Board's days were numbered; the Bank of Rhodesia and Nyasaland would absorb its functions in 1956, making this among the final issues under CACB authority.
Laurence Grafftey-Smith, whose signature appears here, was a career diplomat and former British Minister to Jeddah — an unusual background for a currency board chairman, but colonial monetary administration rarely drew from orthodox banking circles.