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2 Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe |
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| Year | 1980-1994 |
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| Size | 134 × 69 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | RESERVE BANK OF ZIMBABWE $2 I promise to pay the bearer on demand TWO DOLLARS for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor |
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| Protection description | The stone-carved Great Zimbabwe Bird, the national emblem of Zimbabwe. |
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Zimbabwe's first post-independence banknote series, of which this is the lowest denomination, was issued from 1980 following the country's transition from Rhodesia. At that point the Zimbabwe dollar traded at a premium to the US dollar — roughly 1.47 USD to 1 ZWD at introduction — a fact that renders the note's later history almost darkly ironic given what the currency eventually became.
Printed in-house by the Reserve Bank rather than contracted to an overseas security printer, which was unusual for a newly independent African nation at the time.