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EARLY B SERIES (B42 943397) JAN VAN RIEBEECK SA 1961 R2 NOTE MH DE KOCK SIGNATURE ENG OVER AFR F
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AN EARLY B SERIES SA 1961 ISSUED R2 NOTE (B42 943397) ENGLISH OVER AFRIKAANS - MH DE KOCK SIGNATURE - JAN VAN RIEBEECK PORTRAIT (OR IS IT?)
AN OLD VAN RIEBEECK R2 BANKNOTE FROM 1961 ISSUED WHICH FORMED PART OF SOUTH AFRICAS FIRST DECIMAL ISSUE OF BANKNOTES AND COINS IN 1961. THIS OLD R2 NOTE IS LARGE (150mmx85mm) IN COMPARISON TO LATER R2 NOTES.
FROM 1948 TO 1977 NOTES WERE ISSUED IN TWO LANGUAGE VARIANTS AFRIKAANS OVER ENGLISH AND ENGLISH OVER AFRIKAANS.
THIS B42 943397 NOTE IS WRITTEN IN ENGLISH OVER AFRIKAANS. CONDITION FINE.
CONDITION FINE GUIDELINES: Considerable circulation is apparent, with creases, folds and wrinkles visible. MOST, IF NOT ALL, OF THE CRISPNESS IS GONE. THERE MAY BE SLIGHT TEARS. Some fading of color noticeable, with SOME STAINING POSSIBLE. IN THIS CONDITION THIS NOTES VALUE IS AROUND R300.
THE FRONT HAS THE SIGNATURE OF MH (Michiel Hendrik) DE KOCK THE SOUTH AFRICAN RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR FROM 1945 TO 1962.
THE OBVERSE FEATURES JAN VAN RIEBEECK (OR IS IT? SEE STORY BELOW) WITH HIS THREE SAILING SHIPS THE REIJER, DROMEDARIS AND GOEDE HOOP. THE REVERSE HAS A LION CLUTCHING THREE PAPER SCROLLS AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN OLD NATIONAL MOTTO EX UNITATE VIRES.
NUMISTA RARITY INDEX NUMBER 74: Numista produces an index to show the approximate rarity of coin, banknote. This index ranges from 1 to 100, with 1 representing the most common items and 100 representing the rarest items.
SIZE: 150mm x 85mmJAN VAN RIEBEECK OR SOMEONE ELSE?
There are an interesting true story of the portrait on 30 different old South African banknotes since 1948 to 1994.
Chiselled features, flowing locks and a manicured moustache. Its a face that has been immortalized in South African history books.
But, as it turns out, this portrait is not of Jan van Riebeeck, but most likely of another Dutch local Bartholomeus Vermuyden who never even set foot in South Africa.
The image of the supposed Jan van Riebeeck at a time before computers or Google was derived from a portrait painting of Dirck Craey which is now in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum. In 1984 it was concluded that the painting from which the image was borrowed was not of Van Riebeeck, the man who arrived with three ships in Table Bay in 1652 but probably that of another Dutchman named Bartholomeus Vermuyden.
In what is believed to be an actual portrait of the Dutch settler, also on display at the Rijksmuseum, Van Riebeecks appearance is markedly different from the face on South Africas old currency.
THESE NOTES IN THIS CONDITION ARE VALUED AT AROUND R300.
I AM ASKING R150 OR NEAREST OFFER.
