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Zimbabwe dollar — restored 2019 currency: research record

Evidence coverage: 2019–2024. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Zimbabwe dollar — restored 2019 currency

FTM000164 · Research draft

A documented account-unit or currency-system transition supports this predecessor identity; not admitted from a specimen or inherited label alone.

One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 2019–2024; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

United States dollarstatutory unit replacement · 2019
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Children / successors

Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), 2024 introductionstatutory unit replacement · 2024
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Siblings

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Gap review finding

1 USD in covered balances = 1 RTGS dollar. United States dollar local Zimbabwe obligations and USD RTGS balances converted to RTGS dollar. Scope expressly excludes protected foreign-currency accounts and foreign loans/obligations. Treat as local account succession, not ancestry of all USD contracts everywhere.

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Evidence & research notes 3 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C1118

Zimbabwe’s 2024 legal amendments introduced ZiG as the unit of account replacing Zimbabwe dollars, including conversion of existing balances.

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe · Annual Report 2024 Citation S110 · Open source ↗

Printed p. 5; pp. 103,107

Source access and limitations

Use April 2024 introduction only; financial-report restatement factors are not automatically retail conversion terms.

No 2026 regime claim.

Supported C1256

United States dollar local Zimbabwe obligations and USD RTGS balances converted to RTGS dollar. Scope expressly excludes protected foreign-currency accounts and foreign loans/obligations. Treat as local account succession, not ancestry of all USD contracts everywhere.

Zimbabwe Statutory Instrument 33 of 2019 · Zimbabwe Statutory Instrument 33 of 2019, Gazette Extraordinary 22 February 2019 Citation S662 · Open source ↗

Printed pp.373–376, especially §3 inserting §44C(2) and §4(1)(a)–(f), §4(2)

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1344

1 USD in covered balances = 1 RTGS dollar. United States dollar local Zimbabwe obligations and USD RTGS balances converted to RTGS dollar. Scope expressly excludes protected foreign-currency accounts and foreign loans/obligations. Treat as local account succession, not ancestry of all USD contracts everywhere.

Zimbabwe Statutory Instrument 33 of 2019 · Zimbabwe Statutory Instrument 33 of 2019, Gazette Extraordinary 22 February 2019 Citation S662 · Open source ↗

Printed pp.373–376, especially §3 inserting §44C(2) and §4(1)(a)–(f), §4(2)

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

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