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Printed in blue-purple tones, the obverse carries a three-quarter portrait of a Sudanese elder wearing a white turban and glasses at left, rendered in intaglio. At centre, a large ornate guilloche rosette encloses the Bank of Sudan eagle vignette in green. Cotton plant sprigs occupy the right margin, while Arabic inscriptions appear in the upper and lower panels, with the denomination numeral '10' at lower left and upper left corners. |
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The reverse is executed in blue-purple and pink tones, with 'BANK OF SUDAN' inscribed in English across the top. The central vignette presents an aerial view of the Kenana Sugar Factory industrial complex within an oval frame, labelled in Arabic below. Cotton plant sprigs appear at left, ornamental numeral panels occupy both side margins, and 'Ten Sudanese Pounds' is rendered in a decorative scroll at the bottom centre. |
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Sudan's 1983 currency reform was inseparable from Nimeiry's September Laws, which imposed sharia across the country and forced a parallel restructuring of the banking system along Islamic principles — interest was abolished, and the entire framework of state finance had to be formally reconstituted. This note was issued into that upheaval.
Thomas De La Rue had printed Sudanese currency continuously since independence, and the P#27 series retained that relationship even as the political ground shifted dramatically beneath it. The single watermark security feature reflects the relatively modest specification budget of the issue.