Sudan established its own Currency Printing Press in Khartoum partly to reduce dependence on foreign printers during a period when international sanctions complicated procurement of security paper and printing services. By 2006, the press was producing the full range of circulating notes domestically, though the security feature set remained relatively modest — a watermark, without the metallic thread or color-shifting ink that had become routine elsewhere.
This note predates the 2011 secession of South Sudan by five years, after which the currency was restructured entirely and a new pound introduced in 2011.
Sudan established its own Currency Printing Press in Khartoum partly to reduce dependence on foreign printers during a period when international sanctions complicated procurement of security paper and printing services. By 2006, the press was producing the full range of circulating notes domestically, though the security feature set remained relatively modest — a watermark, without the metallic thread or color-shifting ink that had become routine elsewhere.
This note predates the 2011 secession of South Sudan by five years, after which the currency was restructured entirely and a new pound introduced in 2011.