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10 Pounds OAU, Copper Piedfort
| Issuer | Bank of Sudan |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Currency | First pound (1956-1992) |
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| Obverse description | Central device features the Sudanese national coat of arms, comprising a secretary bird with wings displayed, perched upon and clutching a Nile shield flanked by two scrolled ribbons. A banner above the bird bears Arabic inscription. The denomination appears on either side of the central device, reading '١٠ جنيهات' to the left in Arabic and 'Ls. 10' to the right in Latin characters. A curved Arabic legend below reads 'جمهورية السودان الديمقراطية' (Democratic Republic of Sudan), with the Hijri date '١٣٩٨' to the lower left and the Gregorian date '1978' to the lower right. The entire design is contained within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | جمهورية السودان الديمقراطية - ١٠ جنيهات - Ls. 10 - ١٣٩٨ - 1978 |
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Struck to mark the 1978 Khartoum summit of the Organisation of African Unity, which Sudan hosted under Nimeiry's government at a moment when the country was positioning itself as a central diplomatic player in pan-African politics. Piedforts — double-thickness blanks struck on special planchets — were produced almost exclusively for presentation and collector purposes, meaning this piece almost certainly never left a presentation case.
The OAU summit series from this period is thinly documented in most references; KM picks it up but mintage figures remain unrecorded.