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1 Shilling
| Uitgever | Post Office Department - Cape Colony, Naauwpoort |
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| Jaar | 1900 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Horizontally formatted postal note in pale yellow-green on cream paper. The upper portion carries the inscriptions POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT and CAPE COLONY flanking a central royal arms vignette, with FOR ONE SHILLING in a decorative guilloche band below. At left, a circular ONE PENNY postage stamp vignette of Queen Victoria is incorporated into the design, alongside a POUNDAGE panel. The body of the note consists of a printed money order form with manuscript date of issue (July 1900), serial number, payee line, and a full regulations text in small letterpress type at the lower half. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT CAPE COLONY POSTAL NOTE FOR ONE SHILLING Date of Issue To the MONEY ORDER OFFICE at PAY to at any time within THREE CALENDAR MONTHS from the last day of the Month of Issue the sum of ONE SHILLING on account of the Postmaster General. Postmaster. RECEIVED the above-named Sum. SIGNATURE. REGULATIONS. ONE PENNY POUNDAGE NAAUWPOORT N.C.G.H. 1/- |
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| Opmerkingen |
Naauwpoort was a critical railway junction in the central Cape Colony, and in 1900 it sat directly in the path of Boer advances. This note was issued not by a bank but by the Post Office Department — a civilian administrative body pressed into emergency money production as normal currency supply chains collapsed under wartime conditions. Small-denomination scrip of this kind filled an immediate transactional gap when coin disappeared from circulation through hoarding and military requisition.
Cape Colony post office emergency issues from this period are among the more obscure categories of Anglo-Boer War fiscal material. Naauwpoort-specific pieces surface rarely.