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Set Details
Note Description: Zimbabwe, Reserve Bank "Emergency Issue"
20,000 Dollars ND (2003)
Grade: 64 EPQ
Country: ZIM
Note Number: ZIM18
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 - Wmk: Zimbabwe Bird
Certification #: 8085735-004  
Owner: Revenant
Sets Competing: Pittman Family 2003 Emergency Travellers Checks 2  Score: 62
Date Added: 6/17/2021
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

With regard to this example / specimen, it is dated 05-12-2003, which I think means Dec 5th, 2003. Based on the date convention I think they use (the UK D-M-Y standard). This seems supported by the stamps. The check was stamped 05-12-2003 at - if I’m reading this right - the ForEx desk of the Standard Chartered Bank of Zimbabwe’s Avondale, Harare Branch. It is stamped as PAID on 08 Dec 2003 by the RBZ in Harare. These are the same dates and stamps as are on the P-16 (8085761-002) and the P-17 (8085735-003) in this set. That P-17 and this P-18 seem to have been issued to and redeemed by the same person - just not the same person that had the P-16.

This gives these three notes in this series a very fun, cool, bit of shared history. But, while it is fun and cool, I can’t really say it is too surprising, given that I bought all of these from the same seller, who most likely got them in large batch a number of years ago.

These three checks then were probably issued and redeemed just 3 days later. The gap between issuance and redemption on a lot of these seems to have been very short, but I think that makes sense during a time of turmoil and rapid inflation. People knew not to let these things sit too long.

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