Catalog
10 Pounds
| Issuer | Bank of Sudan |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company, London, United Kingdom |
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| Obverse description | The Sawakin (Suakin) city gateway vignette appears at left, with an outline map of Sudan at center, set against a multicolor guilloche underprint. Arabic inscriptions identify the issuing authority and denomination, with the Hijri and Gregorian dates incorporated into the design. The overall color scheme is black and deep green over the multicolor underprint. |
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| Reverse description | A detailed intaglio vignette of the Bank of Sudan headquarters building occupies the center right, rendered in black against a salmon-pink and multicolor guilloche underprint with decorative geometric and floral border elements at left and right margins. The denomination appears in English lettering at lower center as "Ten Sudanese Pounds", flanked by numeral 10 panels at both corners. The issuer's name "BANK OF SUDAN" is inscribed in bold lettering across the top. |
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By 1991, Sudan was deep into the economic fallout of al-Bashir's 1989 coup and the subsequent imposition of Islamic banking law, which formally prohibited interest-bearing instruments. The 10 Pound note of this series occupied an awkward transitional position — the country would shift to the Dinar system in 1992, making this among the last issues denominated in Pounds before that revaluation rendered the currency unit obsolete.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement here is worth noting: the contract survived despite Sudan's rapidly deteriorating international relationships, though it would not last much longer into the decade.