TEN SOUTH AFRICAN R2 NOTES FROM 1984 WITH CONSECUTIVE FV SERIAL NUMBERS IN VERY FINE UNCIRCULATED CONDITION

TEN VERY FINE OLD VAN RIEBEECK R2 BANKNOTES WITH CONSECUTIVE SERIAL NUMBERS FROM SOUTH AFRICAS THIRD DECIMAL ISSUE OF BANKNOTES BETWEEN 1978-1990. THE FRONT HAS VAN RIEBEECK LEFT, WITH POWERLINES TO THE RIGHT IN THE BACKGROUND. THE BACK HAS A SCENE SHOWING A PETROCHEMICAL PLANT, POSSIBLY SASOL IN SASOLBURG.

 
ALL TEN R2 NOTES ARE WRITTEN IN AFRIKAANS OVER ENGLISH. THE FRONT HAS THE SIGNATURE OF GERHARD DE KOCK THE RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR BETWEEN 1981 AND 1989.
 
FV SERIAL NUMBERS:
THE SERIAL NO FV1794061 TO FV1794070 INDICATED THEY WERE PART OF THE THIRD ISSUE OF R2 NOTES WITH GERHARD DE KOCK SIGNATURE AND WERE PRINTED IN 1984 .
 
SIZE: 120mm x 57mm
 
CONDITION: VERY FINE UNCIRCULATED CONDITION
 
SHORT HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN DECIMAL RAND:
The South African Reserve Bank has been issuing banknotes for 100 years.
When it started issuing notes, the currency was still in UK pounds, which were later replaced by the rand at the start of the 1960s.
In 1961, the rand was introduced on 14 Feb 1961, replacing the pound (1 rand being valued at 10 shillings), just months before South Africa left the Commonwealth to become a republic on 31 May 1961.
Between 1961 to 1991, the banknotes' front face had the face of Jan van Riebeeck (OR IS IT SEE INTERESTING STORY BELOW), with the first issues carrying just his face.
 
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

JAN 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.
 
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