| Slot: |
1,000 Dollars ZIM15 |
| Item: |
Zimbabwe, Reserve Bank "Emergency Issue"
1000 Dollars ND (2003) |
| Grade: |
PMG 64 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
8085761-001
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Owner Comments
The thing that makes the P-15, $1000 checks particularly interesting is that they are for $1000. By 2003 the country had the P-12, $1000 banknote. The Cargill Bearer checks excluded a $1000 denomination and only had $5000 (P-13) and $10000 (P-14). The 2003 Bearer checks (P-21 to P-23) also exclude a $1000 denomination. What the existence of P-15 suggests, what I can only assume, is that they were having a hard time printing enough of the P-12 banknotes to meet market needs for a while and they had to make these to fill the gap.
With regard to this example / specimen, it is dated 02-03-04. My limited research says Zimbabwe uses a D-M-Y date convention - the way the UK does it, not the way the US does it - so this would be March 2nd 2004. It was also stamped 02 Mar 2004 at the Victoria Falls branch of the Metropolitan Bank of Zimbabwe - they stamped it on both sides even. It was marked as paid just 6 days later on 08 Mar 2004, by the RBZ in Harare, so this thing probably wasn’t out in the world very long, which might explain why it made it to 2021 as a raw note in 64 EPQ condition. Unlike some other examples of these I’ve seen however, it was signed by the holder in two places, at issuance and at time of redemption probably.
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| Slot: |
10,000 Dollars ZIM17 |
| Item: |
Zimbabwe, Reserve Bank "Emergency Issue"
10,000 Dollars ND (2003) |
| Grade: |
PMG 64 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
8085761-003
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Owner Comments
The handwritten date on this one reads 05-12-03. It’s hard to read most of the stamp on this one but it looks like another Standard Chartered Bank of Zimbabwe stamp from 05-12-03. I can’t tell what location / branch is indicated but I would guess this is another one from Harare. The PAID stamp from the RBZ says 08 Dec 2003 as well. Based on the similarities in the stamps and the inking I’m wondering if this P-17 was stamped by the same person, at the same desk, with the same stamp as the P-18 in this set (8085761-004)
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| Slot: |
20,000 Dollars ZIM18 |
| Item: |
Zimbabwe, Reserve Bank "Emergency Issue"
20,000 Dollars ND (2003) |
| Grade: |
PMG 63 EPQ |
| Cert #: |
8085761-004
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Owner Comments
The handwritten date on this one reads 05-12-03. It’s hard to read most of the stamp on this one but it looks like another Standard Chartered Bank of Zimbabwe stamp from 05-12-03. I can’t tell what location / branch is indicated but I would guess this is another one from Harare. The PAID stamp from the RBZ says 08 Dec 2003 as well. Based on the similarities in the stamps and the inking I’m wondering if this P-18 was stamped by the same person, at the same desk, with the same stamp as the P-17 in this set (8085761-003)
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