Pittman Family 1st Dollar 2003 Emergency Bearer Checks
5,000 ZIM21d

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Set Details
Note Description: Zimbabwe, Reserve Bank "Emergency Issue"
5000 Dollars 2003 - With Printed Name
Grade: 67 EPQ
Country: ZIM
Note Number: ZIM21d
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 - Wmk: Zimbabwe Bird & RZB
- Sign. #8
Certification #: 8074632-095  
Owner: Revenant
Sets Competing: Pittman Family 1st Dollar 2003 Emergency Bearer Checks  Score: 89
Date Added: 8/31/2020
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

Three months after the Cargill bearer cheques were introduced - primarily as payment instruments for cotton farmers - the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe issued its own set of bearer cheques.

The 2003 bearer check series were emergency notes of the first dollar which were issued starting on 15 Sept 2003. They were in circulation until the withdrawal of the first dollar on 21 August 2006. The backs of these 2003 issues are mostly blank except for some patterning which is probably there as an anti-counterfeiting feature. There is a space that seems like it should have an image there, as with the earlier 1st dollar issues, but it is just empty. The $50 000 and $100 000 denominations (ZIM28 through ZIM32), depicting Victoria Falls on reverse, were introduced on 1 October 2005. Following the redenomination of August 2006, bearer checks that were originally scheduled to expire on 31 December 2006 were demonetized early.

Bearer checks dated 15 September 2003 bear the signature of the Acting Governor Charles Chikaura. The remainder of the series bear the signature of Dr. Gideon Gono, who was appointed governor in November 2003.

The ZIM21d has Dr Gono’s name printed / typed next to the facsimile signature where prior issues had not done this. I suppose I am not the only one that cannot read any of these signatures – and I generally cannot.

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