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Well done and thanks, EFV, for a great series of posts.

Rob D wrote: Well done and thanks, EFV, for a great series of posts.

Hear, hear !

Neville

Neville, Rob many thanks for the positive feedback. I have a few more Noten with more or less puzzling annotations.

Below 5 Pond Pretoria Noot apparently has been used in payment by N.G. Swartz, a member of the ZAR Staats Artillerie. The Noot is unusual for a number of reasons: it is annotated in English, doesn’t bear any of the usual texts explaining usage, doesn’t state rank of the issuer and carries a date.

That it nevertheless is a Noot that was used on commando in the field can be deduced from the added text “Geldenhuis was with him”, to which the name “Coetzee” was added. The intended recipient seemed to have demanded this additional information before he was prepared to part with 5 Ponden worth of goods or livestock (the Gouvernement’s Noten usually traded at hefty discounts so the value was probably considerably less). The fact that it bears a text in English may indicate it was paid to a farmer or shopkeeper in, or close to, the Cape or Natal.

Looking though the ABW museum database there were solid hits on Nicolaas Gerhardus Swart (nb without the “z” but such spelling differences for a name occurred frequently) and Jacobus Hendrik Geldenhuis, both veteran members of the ZAR Staats Artillerie. Unfortunately, there were too many men by the name Coetzee (or Coetsee, Kotze, Coetsé etc) serving with the Artillerie to get a definitive identification although further research perhaps could identify the commando that Swartz and Geldenhuis had joined in October 1900 and identify the correct Coetzee on the basis of that information.



5819 stands for the serial number of the Noot. I couldn’t decipher the scribble below it. Input welcome!

Hi EFV,

I second Rob & Neville’s comments; it’s a field I have very little knowledge on.

It’s a timely reminder that no army can sustain itself without money.

I’m not sure if you are aware but there are a few Noots coming up for sale at the next C&T auction on the 9th November.

Cheers,
Shaun