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50 Million Dollars ZIM57

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Note Description: Zimbabwe, Reserve Bank
50 Million Dollars 2008 - Wmk: Zimbabwe Bird
Grade: 66 EPQ
Country: ZIM
Note Number: ZIM57
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 - Sign. #8
Certification #: 8046943-079  
Owner: Revenant
Sets Competing: Operation Sunrise  Score: 37
Date Added: 10/19/2019
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

Where the balancing rocks are a major design feature on the front of the banknotes, with the checks of this series they appear only as part of the seal of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.

On the back, the bearer checks of this series feature different designs, emphasizing things of national or cultural significance, much like the first dollar banknotes that came before them. In that regard, these bearer checks are a bit of a cross between the bearer checks and the banknotes of the first dollars in terms of design.

The back of this note features an image of a group of elephants. This artwork first appeared on P-12 (1,000 ZWD) with the 1st dollar series. This image is also used on P-51 (500,000 ZWN) This image later appeared in the 4th dollar series with P-98 (500 ZWL).

While it hosts safaris and allows game hunting in the country, Zimbabwe is actually a great success story for conservation, particularly for elephants. It is believed that in 1900 as few as 4,000 elephants remained in the country and it was feared that the animal would become extinct in the region. Conservation efforts have been so successful that it has become an issue of population management, rather than just conservation. Even with increases in illegal killings in recent years the government controls and limits the population to prevent the elephants from causing habitat changes or other damage. Even with the legal and illegal killing and even with a massive 45,000 elephant cull from 1960 to 1989, the modern population sits at over 80,000, which is more than twice the national target population of 40,000 – which apparently comes from 1908.

This note is one of five of the notes in the 2nd dollar bearer check series that I got for my birthday in 2019.

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