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10 000 Dollars Emergency Bearer Cheque
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Value | 10 000 Dollars (10 000 ZWD) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a broad guilloche border executed in red and pink tones, enclosing a large central panel of multicolour fine-line lathe work in green, gold, and orange. At the lower left, a vignette of three rhinoceroses is superimposed over a repeated numeral underprint reading '50', rendered in orange and red. |
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| Protection description | Zimbabwe Bird watermark visible when held to light |
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Zimbabwe's hyperinflation was already severe by 2003, but this note predates the truly catastrophic phase — the 100 trillion dollar notes were still five years away. The "Emergency Bearer Cheque" designation was a legal workaround: by issuing these instruments as cheques rather than banknotes, the Reserve Bank sidestepped statutory limits on currency issuance that the government's own legislation had imposed.
Fidelity Printers and Refiners, a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank itself, handled production domestically — a consequence of Zimbabwe's increasing international isolation making foreign security printing contracts difficult to maintain.