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5 Shillings
| Emittent | Southern Rhodesia Currency Board |
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| Jahr | 1943-1948 |
| Typ | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Portrait of King George VI in military uniform at right, with a large intaglio numeral '5/-' at centre against a guilloche underprint. The Southern Rhodesia coat of arms appears as a vignette at upper centre, flanked by the issuer's name across the top. Legal tender text, denomination in words, issue date, place of issue, and issuing authority are arranged in the left panel, with two manuscript signatures below — one for Member and one for Chairman of the Currency Board. |
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| Rückseitenlegende | SOUTHERN RHODESIA FIVE SHILLINGS 5/- CURRENCY BOARD |
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The Southern Rhodesia Currency Board was a passive issuing mechanism — it held no discretionary monetary authority and simply exchanged notes one-for-one against sterling held in London. These 5 Shillings notes circulated during wartime and early postwar years when Southern Rhodesia was contributing troops and resources to the British war effort, and the peg to sterling was the entire monetary policy.
Bradbury Wilkinson printed for dozens of colonial currency boards across the empire during this period from their New Malden works, and the two distinct size variants within this single Pick number suggest a mid-series format change — unusual for such a short-dated issue spanning only five years.