Pittman Family 2003 Emergency Travellers Checks 2
5,000 Dollars ZIM16

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Note Description: Zimbabwe, Reserve Bank "Emergency Issue"
5000 Dollars ND (2003)
Grade: AU 55 EPQ
Country: ZIM
Note Number: ZIM16
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 - Wmk: Zimbabwe Bird
Certification #: 8085735-002  
Owner: Revenant
Sets Competing: Pittman Family 2003 Emergency Travellers Checks 2  Score: 54
Date Added: 6/17/2021
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

This example was dated 30-03-05, lining up with the 30 03 2005 stamp it got at the ZIMBANK Foreign Exchange desk at the Belmont Branch in Bulawayo. It was stamped as PAID by the RBZ on 02 Apr 2005, suggesting that some people were still interested in redeeming these and flipping them for whatever minimal value they must have still had at that point in time. They weren’t worthless by 2005, they were just very close to it.

There is a snarky part of me that wonders - how did the value of this check at redemption compare to the cost of the ink from the ink pad or self-inking stamp that someone had to use to stamp and process it? Was this thing even worth the ink used to stamp it? I imagine by mid-2005 that would have been getting pretty questionable / iffy.

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