| ZIM 10,000 Dollars 2003 | ZIM 20,000 Dollars 2003 |
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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 was a series of emergency currency notes of the first dollar which were issued starting on 15 Sept 2003 which 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 t... | 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-coun... |
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| ZIM 50,000 Dollars 2006 | ZIM 50,000 Dollars 2006 |
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This series of Bearer checks represented by ZIM28 through ZIM32 only features two denominations - $50,000 (ZIM28 to ZIM30) and $100,000 (ZIM31 & ZIM32). While still and “emergency check” issue and not a banknote, these issues differed significantly from the Traveler’s Checks and Cargill Bearer Checks
ZIM28 was issued on Oct 1, 2005, where ZIM29 and ZIM30 were issued on Feb 1, 2006. I believe all three were redeemable on or before Dec 31, 2006. The ZIM29 had serial number prefixes that start... | Owner's Description:
This series of Bearer checks represented by ZIM28 through ZIM32 only features two denominations - $50,000 (ZIM28 to ZIM30) and $100,000 (ZIM31 & ZIM32). While still and “emergency check” issue and not a banknote, these issues differed significantly from the Traveler’s Checks and Cargill Bearer Checks
ZIM28 was issued on Oct 1, 2005, where ZIM29 and ZIM30 were issued on Feb 1, 2006. I believe all three were redeemable on or before Dec 31, 2006. The ZIM29 had serial number prefixes that started... |
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| ZIM 100,000 Dollars 2006 | ZIM 1 Cent 2006 |
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This 100,000 Dollar Bearer check is the final issue / pick / type of note released under the first dollar (ZWD) and it is the highest denomination released for that original Zimbabwean currency. The first redenomination removed “only” 3 zeros. The idea of having gone through and inflation so severe that the currency had lost 99.9% of its value and the denominations therefore needed to be reduced by three orders of magnitude is horrifying. For most people, especially those in developed “Western” ... | Owner's Description:
In October 2005 the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe announced that a redenomination would occur. In August 2006, with increasingly severe hyperinflation, the government took off 3 "zeroes" or decimal places on the currency and introduced the "second Zimbabwean dollar," (currency code: ZWN).
In August 2006, it already took ZWN$650 to equal US$1. Only 23 years after it had parity with the US dollar, it would have taken ZWD$650,000 to equal US$1 when the first dollar was retired / discontinued. By Feb... |
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| ZIM 5 Cents 2006 | ZIM 10 Cents 2006 |
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I think, when most people think of fractional banknotes, they think of Civil War era US issues. Fractional issues tend to only occur during very unusual, economically unsettled times. In the Civil War there was a lot of coin hoarding because of inflation. The Confederate States experience another of history’s great hyperinflations.
Since I learned about their existence, I’ve found these four fractional notes (the 1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent, and 50 cent notes) especially interesting and I’ve know... | Owner's Description:
I think, when most people think of fractional banknotes, they think of Civil War era US issues. Fractional issues tend to only occur during very unusual, economically unsettled times. In the Civil War there was a lot of coin hoarding because of inflation. The Confederate States experience another of history’s great hyperinflations.
Since I learned about their existence, I’ve found these four fractional notes (the 1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent, and 50 cent notes) especially interesting and I’ve know... |
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| ZIM 50 Cents 2006 | ZIM 1 Dollar 2006 |
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I think, when most people think of fractional banknotes, they think of Civil War era US issues. Fractional issues tend to only occur during very unusual, economically unsettled times. In the Civil War there was a lot of coin hoarding because of inflation. The Confederate States experience another of history’s great hyperinflations.
Since I learned about their existence, I’ve found these four fractional notes (the 1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent, and 50 cent notes) especially interesting and I’ve know... | Owner's Description:
The Third Chimurenga (Shona word for “Struggle”), aka the Fast Track Land Reform Program of 2000 transferred about 4,500 farms from whites to landless blacks in the country - supposedly. There were reports at the time of farms actually going to well-connected elites in the government and armed forces, with General Constantine Chiwenga supposedly receiving 17 farms since 2000. Many of the new owners were then unable to succeed because the government failed to supply or make available agricultural... |
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