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50 Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe |
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| Year | 1994 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse centres on a vignette of the Chiremba Balancing Rocks in Matopos National Park, rendered against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The iconic Zimbabwe Bird appears in colour-shifting ink at upper right. The issuer inscription and promise-to-pay legend are printed in intaglio across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a detailed vignette of the conical tower within the Great Enclosure at the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, near Masvingo (formerly Fort Victoria), set against a patterned guilloche background in muted tones. The ancient dry-stone structure is rendered with fine line engraving, conveying the monumental character of the site. The issuer name appears in letterpress across the upper margin. |
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Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank issued this note under relatively stable monetary conditions — 1994 predates the catastrophic hyperinflationary spiral that would eventually render Zimbabwean dollar denominations literally uncountable. At fifty dollars, this was a meaningful sum in circulation, not an emergency stopgap.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement guarantees a certain baseline of security engineering, and the intaglio printing characteristic of their 1990s African commissions gives the note tactile depth that later domestic-printed issues simply lacked.