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10 Shillings
| Issuer | Central Africa Currency Board |
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| Year | 1955 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait Queen Elizabeth II at right. Trees and hills in Eastern District. |
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| Signature(s) | Grafftey-Smith (Chairman) |
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The Southern Rhodesia Currency Board was a passive issuing authority — it held sterling reserves and issued notes in fixed exchange, with no power to conduct monetary policy. That arrangement suited the colonial framework but left the territory entirely exposed to decisions made in London. By 1955, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland had already been constituted for two years, yet Southern Rhodesia continued issuing its own board notes in parallel, a transitional overlap that makes precise attribution of late series notes worth noting.
Bradbury Wilkinson printed this series on relatively thin paper, and the single watermark security feature reflects the modest specification common to smaller colonial denominations of the period. Pinhole cancellations are frequently encountered on surviving examples.