Gradually, Then Suddenly
ZIM44, 2006, 1 Thousand ZWN

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2nd Dollar Emergency Bearer Check AN Prefix - $1,000

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Set Details
Note Description: 1000 Dollars 2006 - Wmk: Zimbabwe Bird
Grade: 66 EPQ
Country: Zimbabwe
Note Number: ZIM44
Signatures/
Vignettes: 		- Sign. #8
Certification #: 8046920-078
Owner: Revenant
Set Category: World
Set Name: Gradually, Then Suddenly
Slot Name: ZIM44, 2006, 1 Thousand ZWN
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

I spend a lot of time and words in these sets on talking about the need to consider the set as a whole and think about the story that the set represents and tells. When you think about it in the context of a book, most people – even most book collectors – wouldn’t have much interest in a single leaf from a book, even a famous or valuable book, unless it was something like the Gutenberg Bible. I think the situation is somewhat similar for many of the lower denomination 2nd dollar and 3rd dollar issues. It is relatively common to see dealers offering the entire 27-note 3rd dollar series, raw, as a set, or the entire 59-note run of the 2nd and 3rd dollars (from P-33 to P-91) as a set. It is seemingly less common to see merchants trying to market individual note from this run. When they are do, it is usually for a small amount or in bulk quantities. I think this fact supports my view of the set and shows that it is one that other collectors tend to share. These notes are a set. They are best appreciated and understood as a set that tells a story. You are either interested in that story and a fan of the series or you are not – in which case you buy the $100 Trillion note and call it a day or do not collect these notes at all. I love the story though, and so I bought this note and added it to what may be one of the biggest and most complete sets of PMG-graded Zimbabwe notes in existence.

With a 1000 to 1 exchange rate between the ZWD and the ZWN, this check had a value equivalent to 1 Million ZWD.

Where the balancing rocks are a major design feature on the front of the banknotes, with the checks of this series they appear only as part of the seal of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.

On the back, the bearer checks of this series feature different designs, emphasizing things of national or cultural significance, much like the first dollar banknotes that came before them. In that regard, these bearer checks are a bit of a cross between the bearer checks and the banknotes of the first dollars in terms of design.

These 1000-dollar bearer checks (ZIM44) use the image of some terraced hills that appeared first on the 5-dollar notes (ZIM5) of the re-designed 1st dollars in the mid-1990s. This design reappeared on ZIM42 (100 ZWN), and ZIM54 (5 Million ZWN). After ZIM54 this artwork was not used again and did not reappear in the 4th dollar series like several of the other images that originated with the 1st dollars.

This is one of five notes I got for Christmas in 2019 – the last set of additions in a year that became dedicated to building this set into what I had always dreamed and believed it could be.

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