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title: Reserve Bank of Rhodesia ten-dollar note, reverse with Great Zimbabwe (1979)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rhodesia-10-dollar-great-zimbabwe-1979/
description: Reverse of a ten-dollar note headed 'RESERVE BANK OF RHODESIA', printed with the stone ruins of Great Zimbabwe, the conical tower and the curved…
section: Collection
---

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# Reserve Bank of Rhodesia ten-dollar note, reverse with Great Zimbabwe (1979)

Reverse of a ten-dollar note headed 'RESERVE BANK OF RHODESIA', printed with the stone ruins of Great Zimbabwe, the conical tower and the curved enclosure wall under trees, and an oval watermark window showing the Zimbabwe bird. The currency pairs the issuer's name with a monument whose origin was contested between the government's official line and African nationalists, so the note borrows the site's prestige for the state's own image.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
RESERVE BANK OF RHODESIA
$10 [in each of the four corner cartouches]
TEN DOLLARS
```

Reverse only; the watermark window and the engraved ruins carry no text. The obverse (promise to pay, signature and date) is not hosted.

[← Cairo Governorate portrait boards of Sadat and Carter (1979)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cairo-governorate-sadat-carter-portrait-boards-1979/) [State Information Service billboard 'A durable peace based on justice is our aim' (Cairo, 1979) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/egypt-sis-durable-peace-billboard-cairo-1979/)

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