Catalog
10 Pula
| Issuer | Bank of Botswana |
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| Year | 1982-1997 |
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| Size | 139 × 69 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of President Quett Masire at left centre against a guilloche underprint in green and multicolour tones, with a vignette of a lilac-breasted roller bird at centre right and the national arms at upper right. The denomination numeral '10' appears at lower left and upper left corners, with the legal tender inscription in English across the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANKA YA BOTSWANA PULA TSE SOME |
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This series ran across fifteen years and four signature combinations, making it one of the longer-lived designs in Botswana's currency history. The pairing of P.S. Mmusi — who served as Vice President — with multiple successive Bank of Botswana governors reflects the country's constitutional arrangement at the time, under which the Minister of Finance co-signed alongside the Governor rather than a dedicated Treasury official.
F.G. Mogae signed first as Governor, then later appeared on the opposite side of the signature line as Minister of Finance, a progression that tracks his rise to the Vice Presidency and ultimately the Presidency in 1998.