Zimbabwe Checklist?

One of my relations went to Zimbabwe to help the Sandra Jones centre, and decided to bring back some 30 Zimbabwe notes for me! So now I have millions of dollars (well, Zimbabwean dollars anyway) just lying around in my collection.

It's bad enough being a Bosnian millionaire or a Weimar billionaire without you Zimbabwean trillionaires coming on here and putting on airs...

Nice bunch of notes.

I wonder if the Zimbabeans figured out that elections have consequences.

Zimbabwe is a beautiful country I live about 500 miles from them

@CelticKnot: Sorry for the late reply!
T be honest I wasn't really focusing on omplete the set, but during time I realised I got a few new Zimbabewan notes at every 5th purchase (or smth) which in the end got me to really want to get them all.
The last pieces I got was the 10,000, 20,000 and 50,000 dollars. They ain't that hard to get, but the tricky part is to get the best deal for them.

I also have the complete 1994-2004 set, but I'm not showing if for now, since I'm hoping to get the last variety first.
I haven't paid too mych attention towards the "thick vs. thin paper" variety. It's simply too difficult to tell the difference - and it's even harder when the seller doesn't know either.

In an answer to Anaximander's earlier listing of Zimbabwe currency notes I would like to make the following corrections;

Standard Charter Series Bearer cheques were not issued in 2006
5,000
10,000
20,000
50,000
100,000

Correction as follows:

Standard Chartered for Cargill Cotton issued $10000, $20000, $50000 & $100000 dated 1.4.2004 Pick 24-27

Standard Chartered for Cargill Cotton issued date varieties of $5000 & $10000 in 2003 Pick 13a,b & 14a&b

RBZ Travellers Cheque issued $1000, $5000, $10000, $20000, $50000 & $100000 denominations in 2003.

The travellers cheques were impopular due to the single use nature of the issue. Over the last five years ago large quantities of these -stamped with bank redemption 'bank' marks and double signed and dated - have appeared on ebay for as low as US$1 a note in minimum EF condition.

On my visit to the RBZ Harare in 2003, I picked up quantities of these items but I managed to avoid signing them while paying at the counter. I noticed that the $1000 denomination (Pick 15) was in short supply so I obtained the seven or so copies which were left. All other denominations were available in bundles.

I learned later that the Zim$1000 was unpopular with RBZ management even in the beginning planning stages since sufficient quantities of Pick 12 were available in stock.

At any rate, four of the seven were dispersed to major collectors in South Africa and elsewhere. I still have a consecutive pair and a single in stock with serial numbers >3000. The consecutive pair I will leave for my son's collection and the single is potentially available for an outrageous (high) offer for his education fund. Note this is for the unstamped, unsigned version.

Serious collectors of Zimbabwe's inflation and hyper-inflation notes also collect by prefix letters. The later issue post 2005, Pick 33+, generally have only AA or AB prefixes. I specialize on prefixes for the Pick 21, 22 & 23 in aunc or better grades. Range including a few replacements. The replacements are in low condition.

If interested contact me by PM

I was reorganizing my collection today and picked up a couple of the older ZWD (1st Zimbabwean Dollar) notes to fill some holes while I was at it. I have a few questions on some of the varieties:

1. For P1c/d and P2c/d, what is the difference between watermark type A and watermark type B?
2. For P5a/b, how do you tell the difference between intaglio and litho? The P5 I have seems to have a texture to it, particularly right around the "FIVE DOLLARS" in the center of the note. I assume that would indicate intaglio.
3. For P12a/b, is there an indicator of what small digits are and what large digits are in the serial? I have a P12 but don't know which variety I have. ebay doesn't seem to help on this.

Thanks for any help.

I believe the prefix for replacement notes for 2007-2008 is "ZA". The Standard Catalog version I'm looking at (15th edition @2009) doesn't say, but every ebay auction I've seen for replacement hyperinflation notes has "ZA" prefixes.

[edit: corrected prefixes per Nqdawa's note below]

CelticKnot wrote: 1. For P1c/d and P2c/d, what is the difference between watermark type A and watermark type B?
2. For P5a/b, how do you tell the difference between intaglio and litho? The P5 I have seems to have a texture to it, particularly right around the "FIVE DOLLARS" in the center of the note. I assume that would indicate intaglio.
3. For P12a/b, is there an indicator of what small digits are and what large digits are in the serial? I have a P12 but don't know which variety I have.  ebay doesn't seem to help on this.

1) To be honest I don't know about the P1c and P1d variety but according to the Zimbabwean catalogue the P2c and P2d are 1983 and 1994 accordingly and they have different signatures.

2) About the P5a and P5b it's the 5 on the top left on the reverse you will look at.
See here:

3) The variety of the serial number is easiert to spot if you compare the W.
See here: