Pittman Family 2003 Emergency Travellers Checks 1
50,000 Dollars ZIM19

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Note Description: Zimbabwe, Reserve Bank "Emergency Issue"
50,000 Dollars ND (2003)
Grade: 66 EPQ
Country: ZIM
Note Number: ZIM19
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 - Wmk: Zimbabwe Bird
Certification #: 8085761-005  
Owner: Revenant
Sets Competing: Pittman Family 2003 Emergency Travellers Checks 1  Score: 119
Date Added: 6/17/2021
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

With regard to this particular example, the dates are a bit confusing. Many of these are dated with pen and stamped with the same date initially. This check, on the other hand has a date of 16/09/03 in pen on the line, but the stamp indicates 18 Sep 2003, at the Samnujoma St Branch in Harare for the “Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe, Limited” - stamped by Teller 4. Adding to my confusion, the back of the note is stamped ZIMBANK Teller 5, First Street, Harare… but dated on 15 Sep 2003 - before the date on the line on the front. I’m not sure what the story is there.

What makes this example a little more interesting to me is that it is stamped as PAID by the RBZ in Harare on 18 Oct 2003 - which happens to have been the day before my 17th birthday. Interestingly, I’ve seen three examples of these now with stamps for 18 Oct, in either 2003 or 2004, but I’ve never seen one stamped on the 19th of October, and I have no clue why.

But that set of stamps and dates puts a solid month between when this was issued and when it was paid / redeemed. That’s a lot longer than the gap I see on many of the others in this group. But this note was redeemed 6 months after those march examples. I’m wondering if, by October 2003, these had lost so much value that people just weren’t caring about redeeming them as much.

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