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Rhodesia (Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe) banknotes
Rhodesia paper money catalog and Rhodesian currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • British currency, 1888-1940
  • South African currency, 1920-1940
  • Southern Rhodesia current, 1940-1956
  • Rhodesia and Nyasaland currency, 1956-1964
  • Rhodesian Pound = (Rhodesia and Nyasaland Pound) = 20 Shillings = 240 Pence, 1964-1970
  • Rhodesia Dollar = (0.50 Rhodesia Pound) 100 Cents, 1970-1980
  • Zimbabwe Dollar = (Rhodesia Dollar) = 100 Cents, 1980-2006
  • Zimbabwe Dollar = (1000 old Dollars) = 100 Cents, from 2006

• For earlier issues see:
  • Southern Rhodesia, 1940-1953
  • Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1953-1964
• For later issues see:
  • Zimbabwe, from 1980

• To purchase Rhodesian banknotes, please check our inventory :
  World banknotes countries A-Z

Pick #	Date
		British Colony 1964-1965, Republic from 1965/1970
24-26	1964	10 shillings, 1, 5 pounds
27-29	1966-68	10 shillings, 1, 5 pounds
30-33	1970-75	1, 2, 5, 10 dollars
34-37	1976-79	1, 2, 5, 10 dollars; wmk C.Rhodes
38-41	1979	1, 2, 5, 10 dollars

		RHODESIAN PRIVATE BANKS
		- African Banking Corporation, Bulawayo, Rhodesia
s101-5A	(1896)	10 shillings, 1, 5, 10, 20, 100 pounds
s105B	(1920)	1 pound
		- Bank of Africa Limited
s106	(1896)	10 shillings
		- Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas), Salisbury
s111-3	1926-1938	10 shillings, 1, 5 pounds
		- National Bank of South Africa Limited
s119	1921	1 pound; overprinted "Rhodesian Issue"
s121-3	(1896)	10 shillings, 1, 5 pounds
		- Standard Bank of South Africa, Salisbury Branch
s132-4	1896	1, 5, 10 pounds
s138	1911-1913	5 pounds
s139	1916-1917	5 pounds
s146-8	1917-1938	10 shillings, 1, 5 pounds