A Mafeking Siege Ten Shillings Note, March 1900, 'This Note Is Good For Ten Shillings (Sterling) During the Siege and will be exchanged for Coin on Resumption of Civil Law at the Standard Bank, Mafeking` reads the front of the note, issued by the Authority of Colonel R.S.S. Baden-Powell, Commanding Frontier Forces, hand signed by both Roger Urry and Captain H. Greener, Serial No. 4081, soldier pictorials, VG.
* This note was previously owned by the actor Leslie Philips.
* The Siege of Mafeking was the most famous British action in the Second Boer War. It took place at the town of Mafeking (now Mafikeng) in South Africa over a period of 217 days, from October 1899 to May 1900, and turned Robert Baden-Powell, who went on to found the Scouting Movement, into a national hero. As normal commerce was interrupted and rationing ordered, Powell issued 1, 2 and 3 shilling coupons as well as ten-shilling and one-pound notes. From February to March 1900, these notes were printed in an underground shelter on ordinary writing paper. The lifting of the Siege of Mafeking was a decisive victory for the British and a crushing defeat for the Boers.
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